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The Texas Senate on Friday advanced a $8.5 billion public school funding bill, moving it one step closer to Gov. Greg ...

The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

Texas this year has been the center of the nation's largest measles outbreak in more than two decades, as a mostly eradicated ...

The Texas House approved a bill that would ban diversity, equity and inclusion policies and programs in public K–12 schools.

Senate Bill 2, Gov. Greg Abbott’s largest priority, is now law. Meanwhile, House Bill 2, the $8.5 billion public school funding bill, is still under consideration.

The effort, Senate Bill 3059, would place the popular mission and battle site in the hands of a newly-created Alamo ...

The Texas House gave initial approval on Saturday to a bill that would require sheriffs to collaborate with ICE by serving ...

As the state seeks to put guardrails around the fast-growing technology, some critics say the bill doesn’t go far enough to ...

While these numbers at the border are sharply lower, the immigration courts are seeing historically high volumes of cases.

A federal appeals court ruled that public library patrons in Llano County, Texas, cannot challenge the removal of books and ...

Hawkins mayor Deborah Lynn Rushing was arrested for allegedly creating a government record by recording city officials without their knowledge, giving the recordings to a resident "who posted clips of ...