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Several emergency supplies can be purchased without paying sales tax this weekend.

The Texas Education Agency released long-delayed 2022-2023 school accountability ratings on Thursday.

A Texas man is facing execution Wednesday for the strangling and stabbing death of a young North Texas mother more than 20 years ago. Moises Sandoval Mendoza was condemned for the March 2004 killing of 20-year-old Rachelle O’Neil Tolleson. Prosecutors say Mendoza took Tolleson from her home in Farmersville, leaving her 6-month-old daughter alone. T...

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Carlos Santana postponed his San Antonio, Texas, concert scheduled for April 22 after he was hospitalized for dehydration, according to his rep.

Preliminary data shows that “tens of thousands” of patients who were not “lawfully” in the United States were treated by Texas hospitals in recent months and the cost for their care is in the millions of dollars, according to a state employee testifying before lawmakers late Monday. Gov. Greg Abbott ordered Texas hospitals last summer to begin aski...

The executive director of the Texas Lottery Commission resigned Monday amid multiple investigations into jackpots in 2023.

Texas has more than 600 known cases of measles as the outbreak in the western part of the state approaches the three-month mark.

A shootout in front of a family courthouse Monday between several Texas deputies and a man with a handgun wounded one of the deputies as well as the suspect, authorities said. At 12:20 p.m., a man displaying a weapon was reported walking from the Harris County Civil Courthouse in downtown Houston to the nearby Family Law Center, Carl Shaw, assistan...

The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at a Walmart in El Paso — one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history — pleaded guilty Monday to capital murder in a state district court.

Lone Star Politics speaks with Congressman Jake Ellzey about the latest news from the Trump Administration: pulling funding for a Dallas to Houston high speed rail. Ellzey’s consistently has voiced the concerns of landowners in between the cities and believes this the latest news is the nail in the coffin.

Nearly six years after a man fatally shot 23 people in a racist attack targeting Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart in Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border, the gunman’s criminal case is set to come to a close.

The Texas Senate has passed a bill that would more than double the amount of money the state spends to lure film and television production to Texas.

Michigan and Pennsylvania officials confirmed measles outbreaks this week. U.S. measles cases topped 700 as of Friday including more than 560 in Texas.