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It was a marathon day in the Texas House Affairs Committee Thursday with a hearing for House Bill 567 and a group of witnesses testifying for it.

A prosecutor says a hostage rescue in Houston in which one person was fatally shot on Thursday first began days ago when three migrants were kidnapped from a vehicle in a neighboring county.

As retailers struggle with a labor shortage, an Austin-based startup is helping stores connect with available workers.

Drivers with cars that cannot pass inspection are able to get temporary paper tags and even regular metal Texas license plates by paying for fraudulent “clean scans” to “pass” required state inspections

If Texans want to gamble, they drive across state lines since it’s illegal in the Lone Star State. Betting on sports online is also illegal, but that’s not stopping thousands of Texans from doing it.

An explosion and fire erupted Wednesday at a chemical plant in suburban Houston, injuring at least one person.

Expanding support for private schools drew parents, teachers and advocates from across Texas for a rally at the Texas Capitol on Tuesday, with Republican Gov. Greg Abbott advocating for his plan to subsidize private education.

President Joe Biden is establishing national monuments in Nevada and Texas and creating a marine sanctuary in U.S. waters near the Pacific Remote Islands southwest of Hawaii.

Finding a life partner has never been an easy or simple process. The pandemic changed the way interact socially and the prevalence of dating advice everywhere you turn on social media can make dating in 2023 overwhelming.

A Texas bill limiting the state’s power to impose mask, vaccine mandates is moving forward in the Senate.

In addition to being home to the most expensive city to live in worldwide, New York is the least affordable U.S. state to retire in. Where does Texas fall on the list?

The U.S. military is investigating the death of a soldier at a Texas Army post that in recent years has struggled with homicide, suicide and sexual assault among its troops.

Long before a Chinese spy balloon captivated the U.S. last month, Kyle Bass foresaw a foreign danger planned for the skies above his Texas property. Dozens of massive wind turbines were set to span 15,000 thousand acres near the Devils River in Del Rio on the border with Mexico. Protests to protect one of the state’s cleanest waterways floppe...