State contractors would be banned from spying on or doing surveillance of lawmakers, whistleblowers and state employees under ...

While thousands of bills died as the House deadline passed, all of Gov. Greg Abbott’s emergency items are still moving ...

The Texas Senate on Thursday unveiled its highly anticipated counterproposal to the House’s multibillion-dollar public school funding legislation, which would establish a long-term teacher pay raise ...

Governor Abbott has asked for Texan SNAP benefit recipients to be prevented from spending them on soda and candy.

On Wednesday, lawmakers preliminarily approved legislation that would codify a number of recommendations advocates made to ...

Read more A city of Austin memo revealed the city’s next steps as it works to address a backlog of vehicles that have unpaid active civil parking violations that have resulted in “nearly $7.4 million ...

The bill died in the Texas House after it was scheduled for a floor vote, but failed to come up for consideration before a midnight deadline on Thursday.

Data centers, which operate 24/7 and provide computing power for cloud operations and AI, require cooling units, fans and ...

Local activists warn that while residents must ration, unimpeded industrial expansion is imperiling the region’s future.

Some of the latest actions go beyond higher education to also target DEI in state and local government agencies.