Republican and Democratic lawmakers have filed legislation in the Texas Senate and House to clarify medical exemptions to the ...

There are a handful of transgender Texans who work in the Capitol. Some say that new restroom rules won’t deter them from ...

A Texas lawmaker has introduced a bill to change the language in the state’s abortion laws to make it clearer when exceptions ...

Sylvester Turner, 70, died on March 5 at his home in Washington, D.C., from what his family described as “enduring health ...

A Texas state senator has filed a bill calling for a study on immigration — specifically, the “economic, environmental, and financial impact of illegal immigration” in the state.

A vacancy in a statewide elective office means the governor selects the replacement. And it could set off a scramble across ...

House Bill 274, filed by State Rep. Briscoe Cain (R-Deer Park), was first announced in December and would allow the state to ...

State lawmakers offered up tributes to the late Houston mayor, congressman and former Texas House member ahead of his memorial on Saturday.

Texas professors and teachers' unions met with lawmakers Monday to say why they oppose school vouchers and limits on faculty ...

A Texas woman who won an $83.5 million jackpot in February through a courier service said the Texas Lottery Commission (TLC) ...

Turner, who spent nearly three decades in the Texas House and died last week, was remembered as a passionate Democrat ...

Minnie Fisher Cunningham helped get women in Texas the right to vote two years before the 19th Amendment was ratified.