This week, the Texas House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at expanding and reforming the Texas Compassionate Use Program (TCUP) by broadening access to medical cannabis for Texans suffering ...

A resolution that would have amended the Texas Constitution to prevent the Legislature from imposing a tax on carbon emissions sparked fiery discussion between the state House of Representatives’ ...

Texas lawmakers remain active in addressing border security and illegal immigration in the 89th Legislative Session, with several pieces of legislation currently under consideration in both the state ...

This story has been updated with a statement from Sen. Mayes Middleton. State lawmakers have voted to remove an exception in Texas law that effectively allowed adults to give obscene material to ...

A new Texas Politics Project poll of registered voters finds President Donald Trump’s personal approval rating wavering, while residents of the Lone Star State continue to approve of the ...

State lawmakers moved closer to approving one of Gov. Greg Abbott’s key priorities Monday night with a vote on legislation that would require the mandatory detention of certain violent suspects ...

At the behest of one of Texas’ U.S. senators, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will open an investigation into a controversial new Muslim-centric community outside of the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

It’s been a fairly quiet legislative session for the power grid — at least in comparison to the last two — but one energy-related item is drawing most of the attention: coping with the influx of data ...

This story has been updated to include recent court decisions upholding the state’s policy on regulating wild game and the deer breeding industry. Few government agencies in Texas carry a title that ...

The Harris County District Attorney’s Office (HCDAO) announced Friday that four felony charges pending against former Harris County Health Director Barbie Robinson had been dropped. “After an ...

This story has been updated with a statement from Rep. Gene Wu. Gov. Greg Abbott has called for more stringent bail reform measures than those already passed in the Texas Senate, adding heft to ...

Rep. Carrie Isaac (R-Dripping Springs) presented a bill on the Texas House floor to allow licensed election judges and certain early voting clerks to carry concealed handguns while performing their ...