AUSTIN, Texas — Hours before the Texas House was set to take up two controversial bills, LGBTQ+ supporters rallied in the ...

Habeas corpus allows for those detained by the government to challenge the detention and be released from imprisonment after ...

The Harris County District Clerk’s Office (HCDCO) has opened a new location for passport applications inside its Records ...

Texas lawmakers have unanimously voted to send H.B. 2000 - better known as Audrii’s Law - to Governor Greg Abbott’s desk to be signed into law.

The Texas House was scheduled to debate two bills on Friday that advocates say would negatively impact the state’s LGBTQ+ ...

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The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a federal civil rights investigation into a Muslim-centered planned community around one of the state’s largest mosques near Dallas, U.S.

Traylor, who was an Austin police officer, died in 2021 after he got into a crash with an 18-wheeler while responding to an urgent call.

The group from Johnson County waited 18 hours to testify at a hearing that started at 1 a.m. on a bill to limit toxic ...

In a vote that fell almost entirely along party lines, the Texas House of Representatives has given approval to a bill that ...

President Donald Trump will be confronted with an Arab plan for postwar Gaza as he embarks on a high-stakes Middle East swing ...

The University of Texas System is investing $100 million in the School of Civic Leadership at its flagship Austin campus, to ...