President Donald Trump speaks about the border after his inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025. The president was talking about Texas ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the flags to be raised despite an order from President Joe Biden to keep them at half-staff.

In a Mothers Against Greg Abbott shirt, Nancy Thompson, the group's founder, rallies for abortion rights at the Texas State Capitol in May 2022. Texas has banned the procedure in almost all cases.

Lawmakers will debate the future of public education, find ways to spend nearly $200 billion in tax money and wrangle over ...

There is a new speaker of the Texas House. That was the top issue as the 89th session of the Texas Legislature began.

Lubbock Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows clinched the Texas House speakership Tuesday in the culmination of an unusually long and unusually public mudfight for the role.

The Texas Republican Party has embraced a new class of evangelical conservatives whose goalposts continue to move further ...

Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, was elected speaker of the Texas House on Tuesday, concluding a bitter and intense power ...

In a dramatic two-ballot vote Tuesday, Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows of Lubbock clinched the title of speaker of the ...

Lubbock, was elected speaker of the Texas House with bipartisan support Jan. 14. Burrows replaced Rep. Dade Phelan, ...

The Motor City Madman kicked off the 2025 Texas legislative session by playing a few licks on an Austin street corner a block from the Capitol.

What a difference from four years ago, when a mob stormed the Capitol, when Trump sought to upend the election results and, ...