Lieutenant Governor Rick Perry took the oath of office to become the 47th Governor of Texas. Governor Perry spoke about the legacy of… read more Lieutenant Governor Rick Perry took the oath of ...

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 ...

The fledgling district attorney was Dan Moody, the future governor of Texas and ... of Representatives in the 38th Texas Legislature, which met during the first half of 1923.

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 ...