Top Republicans praised the Texas Senate's passage of "school choice" legislation as the proposal advances to the House where it was defeated in 2023.

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Welcome to our guide to the 89th Regular Legislative session. We’ll walk you through who makes up the Legislature, how laws ...

Gov. Greg Abbott will lay out his priorities for Texas Sunday during his 2025 State of the State address. The hour-long ...

On the face of things, a focus on drawing rather than painting or sculpture looks like a canny tactic if you are attempting a history of art, especially an “alternative” one. You are ...

A total of 15 of the 31 seats in the Texas State Senate were up for election in 2024. The chamber's Republican majority increased from 19-12 to 20-11. All 31 seats in the Texas State Senate were up ...

The Court usually takes only those cases that present the most significant Texas legal issues in need of clarification. The Supreme Court also has jurisdiction to answer questions of state law ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul laid out her policy agenda for 2025 during her State of the State address on Tuesday, Jan. 14, focusing on affordability, public safety, mental health, the environment ...

and I’m excited to outline my common-sense vision for our state ahead of the upcoming legislative session." He added, "We’ve worked hard to keep taxes low, balance our state budget ...

While he left the state for his undergraduate degree, he returned to Lubbock for graduate school, earning an MBA from Texas Tech University and a J.D. from Tech’s School of Law. Burrows and his wife ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — With the House floor as a backdrop inside of the Texas Capitol, State Rep. Venton Jones (D-Dallas) proposed to the first person he told he was going to run for office.

(The Texas Tribune) — The Texas agency that manages the state’s prisons and jails should close correctional facilities with staffing challenges and do a better job at supervising inmate ...