House Speaker Dustin Burrows reappointed state Rep. Brad Buckley (R-Killeen) to lead the committee. Buckley tried to get school voucher legislation approved in 2023 but rural Republicans and Democrats ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott may have given lawmakers opposing school choice a sounding board to rally further support against sending taxpayer dollars to private and parochial schooling. Earlier this week, ...

During the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak, researcher at the University of Texas followed every positive case, took that data and gave a picture of the spread that helped hospitals prepare for an ...

An East Texas sheriff has apologized to Gov. Greg Abbott during a press conference on Friday after hosting an immigration ...

The bill proposes Texas voters weigh in on a constitutional amendment to “strictly regulate and authorize casino gaming and ...

Texas AG Ken Paxton is investigating Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek due to data privacy concerns.

The chief of the Dallas Police Department said his officers would not be assisting ICE in removing people in the country illegally from his city.

More than 100 miles of Texas’ borderlands could be leased or sold to the federal government as part of the state’s ...

Ted Cruz and Elon Musk are joining a growing number of people in Washington with eyes on the Texas lawmakers as school choice ...

The new head of the Border Patrol is in the Valley Friday. Mike Banks is in Edinburg where he will be swearing in 300 National Guard and Texas Department of ...

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