When Kate Rogers was hired in 2021 to lead the Alamo Trust, she encountered a “healthy level of skepticism” about whether redevelopment...

The Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 477 and House Bill 3159 this session to increase voting accessibility for those with...

In the 88th legislative session, state lawmakers filed more than 11,000 bills. In order to become law, those measures faced the hurdles...

Lake Worth ISD Superintendent Rose Mary Neshyba is staring at a $1 million — maybe even up to $2 million — deficit for next school year....

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the Save Women’s Sports Act into law Thursday, a day after the state filed its 50th lawsuit against the...

The Texas Legislature took only small steps this year to curb the state’s rising electricity demand, Public Citizen pointed out today, at...

The state’s Republican governor signed legislation Wednesday that its sponsor calls the “most significant ban” on higher ed DEI in the...

Phelan announced the formation of a House committee that could set the tone in favor of vouchers ahead of an expected special session on...

State law that limits transgender student athletes’ participation in sports runs afoul of the updated federal civil rights law, which was...

Gov. Greg Abbott signed off on a new law Tuesday that will lower the threshold for local missing child alerts. House Bill 3556 allows law...

Texas preemption bill putting in question local governments ability to create new ordinances. Even just a few minutes outside in this...

The high court left intact a key provision of the federal Voting Rights Act in a case many feared would go the other way. The decision’s...

In Texas, some 44,000 adults could lose their food stamps due to changes to the program. Recent changes to the Supplemental Nutrition...

The Texas Legislature approved HB 2127, the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act, on May 23, 2023, and the bill is soon expected to be signed...

Among the bills lawmakers passed during the regular session are a measure that will abolish the Harris County Elections Administrator’s...

Amid discoveries of 13-year-olds cleaning saws in meatpacking plants and 10-year-olds working in the kitchen at a McDonald's, the Biden...

Say goodbye to paper license plates — just not yet. Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law Monday that puts the brakes on Texas’ paper...

Communities statewide have demanded that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality strengthen environmental regulations for concrete...

The Texas legislature handed a number of wins to the growing electric vehicle industry in the state this past legislative session,...

Texas will have the “most consumer-friendly” data privacy law in the nation, says the bill sponsor, state Rep. Giovanni “Gio”...