Dan Patrick has seamlessly blended show-business flair into his political career with captivating performances to champion ...

From schools and health care to criminal justice and constitutional law, our team’s investigations sparked legislation at the Capitol. We track what passed, and what could come back in the next ...

Eddie Bernice Johnson became th first Black Woman from Dallas to be elected to any seat in Dallas. Now her name may be in the ...

The move puts the state at the center of a debate over whether and how to regulate smartphone use by children and teenagers.

Evan Smith is the cofounder of the Texas Tribune ... Briscoe, Smith’s successor, misses the Governor’s Mansion most of all. He first spent the night there when he was nine, at the invitation ...

The Texas Newsroom's Sergio Martínez-Beltrán ... Now, Abbott is not the first Republican governor nor the last to push for ultraconservative immigration policies. In 1994, California passed ...

As we head into a new athletics year under the NIL era, a new bill has been signed into law in the state of Texas that could benefit Texas A&M and other universities in the state moving forward.

The base salary for state judges hasn't changed or adjusted for inflation since 2013, ranking Texas second-to-last for ...

faced off Friday evening in the first and only debate in the race for Texas governor, a confrontation filled with sharp disagreements and back-and-forth accusations of lying. Sitting at tables in ...

It's the first major drawdown of Gov. Greg Abbott’s $11 billion Operation Lone Star since he launched his signature crackdown ...

By 2022, Texas’s tax revenue from commercial ... do our state’s most important job must stop.” During his first term as governor, Friedman increased this figure and established a minimum ...

and his lawyers more time to petition the Texas Supreme Court and Governor Greg Abbott for clemency. If Roberson had been executed, he would have been the first person executed in a case involving ...