Local prosecutors have used the charge to punish police accused of misconduct. Legislation that would prevent that is ...

A bill in the Legislature would protect the last 21 pristine watersheds in Texas. But for years, previous attempts have been ...

Democrats and other critics say Texas legislation threatens to keep citizens who can’t easily access the right documents from ...

This type of mandate on Texas voters would likely block tens of thousands of ordinary citizens from casting a ballot. One ...

What immigrants and citizens should know about federal agents’ power to question and search people at airports and the border ...

Voting rights advocates worry that legislation approved by House and Senate committees could make it harder to get more ...

The first bill to reach Abbott’s desk this session creates a regulation-cutting state agency under the purview of the ...

The Texas Senate voted on Thursday to send legislation creating a statewide private school voucher program to Gov. Greg ...

Collin County has reported its first measles case, but it is not yet considered part of the ongoing outbreak from West Texas.

School leaders have privately criticized a bill that would make it harder to contest their performance ratings in court. But ...

The only time the state conducted such an assessment two decades ago, it found that undocumented Texans contributed more to ...

City leaders, who will be elected in May, will have just a short window to decide what services to provide, like police or ...