The redrawn map shifts voters in Austin, Houston, North Texas and the Rio Grande Valley in hopes of creating five more Republican seats in the U.S. House.

Another key bill the Senate passed was SB 6, Protecting Unborn Children, filed by Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Tyler, which prohibits ...

Republican leaders say they will give it one more try on Friday to end a quorum break at the State Capitol. If the walkout by Texas Democrats holds, Gov. Greg Abbott says he will immediately call ...

When Gov. Greg Abbott called a special session last month, he put legislation responding to the devastating Hill Country floods at the top of lawmakers’ agenda.

Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows confirmed the plans during a brief session Tuesday morning that marked another failure to ...

When House Democratic lawmakers left Texas to delay passage of a new congressional map, Gov. Greg Abbott took the ...

The Texas Senate voted 19-2 along party lines on Tuesday to approve a congressional redistricting map that is identical to a ...

Marion County is now under a burn ban after Gov. Greg Abbott signed a disaster declaration on Tuesday. County Judge Leward J. LaFleur said the ban was issued ...

A political standoff over redistricting continues in the Texas Legislature as House Democrats remain out of state, preventing ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is preparing to call a second special session to address redistricting if a quorum is not met in the ...

The Texas Senate’s packed floor session Tuesday wasn’t without its own political drama. Early on, nine of the chamber’s ...