The 89th Legislature’s regular session runs from Jan. 14 to June 2, 2025. Republicans control both the Texas House and Senate. We focus on what Texans need to know about the 140-day lawmaking ...

Texas A&M University is the highest-ranked school in the state, followed by Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin, in the Wall Street Journal/College Pulse 2025 Best Colleges in ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is taking a victory lap after new data shows the Lone Star State has led the nation in job creation over the past year. Employment numbers released by the Bureau of Labor ...

Beginning November 1, Texas Governor Greg Abbott will require hospitals in the Lone Star State to disclose information about patients who are noncitizens. Abbott plans to report findings gathered ...

While the focus is on battleground states like Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, a rising swing state — Texas — could decide both the presidency ...

From beaches to bluebonnets, and desert mountains to vineyards, Texas is full of stunning surprises. Part of the Southern Living team since 2017, Kaitlyn Yarborough Sadik is a Georgia native living in ...

President-elect Donald Trump may be planning to attend a SpaceX rocket launch in person in Texas on Tuesday, another sign of his close ties with the company's billionaire founder and CEO Elon Musk.

Texas has a Republican trifecta and a Republican triplex. The Republican Party controls the offices of governor, secretary of state, attorney general, and both chambers of the state legislature. As of ...

To win in Texas, Democrats need to get more people to the polls, especially in cities. Around 500,000 likely Democrats in Harris County did not vote in 2020, according to the county party.

David Anders is a senior writer for CNET covering broadband providers, smart home devices and security products. Prior to joining CNET, David built his industry expertise writing for the broadband ...

As the second-largest state, Texas covers an extraordinary amount of the geographical area in the U.S., able to fit 15 of the smallest states together in its boundaries. Because of the size of the ...

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. At the end of every event on Ted Cruz’s 53-stop campaign swing through Texas, the state ...