RICK PERRY

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry finished up his last day as President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Energy on Sunday.

A Texas health and human services official has been named the new director of the Iowa Department of Human Services. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds says Thursday she appointed Kelly Kennedy Garcia to head the department that oversees the state’s Medicaid program, mental health centers and child welfare services.

A federal court ruled Wednesday that Texas can change voting maps without supervision despite “grave concerns” and findings that Republicans used racial gerrymandering while trying to strengthen their majorities in Congress and the state Legislature.

A Blue Alert for a man suspected of shooting a sheriff’s deputy in Henderson County has been discontinued.

Energy Secretary and former Texas governor Rick Perry sat down with NBC 5 Political Reporter Julie Fine to talk about the Mueller report.

NBC 5 Political reporter Julie Fine sat down with U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry (R) while he was in Dallas.

NBC 5 Political reporter Julie Fine sat down with Energy Sec. Rick Perry while he was in Dallas.

Fortune 500 companies are joining LGBT rights activists in opposing a slew of Texas bills they say are discriminatory after banding together against a transgender “bathroom bill” in 2017.

A Texas state lawmaker says he will file a bill he says would save homeowners about $1,400 a year on their property taxes.

The fate of the long-running criminal case against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has faced securities fraud charges since 2015, was thrown into further uncertainty Wednesday after a court ruled against prosecutors who have threatened to quit if they’re not paid.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has been elected to a second term, NBC News projected just after 8 p.m. Tuesday.

A Texas Republican Party tweet recalling Democratic Senate hopeful Beto O’Rourke’s past arrests has triggered a partisan mugshot melee online.

Congress is abandoning an effort to loosen Cabinet control over an agency responsible for securing the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile. A provision in a defense policy bill would have removed the National Nuclear Security Administration from direct control of the Energy Department, where it’s been housed since its creation in 2000.

Texas A&M University leaders say Energy Secretary Rick Perry wasn’t involved in a $2.5 billion nuclear weapons lab contract that partly went to his alma mater.

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, cribbing a page from former Gov. Rick Perry’s re-election playbook, announced late Wednesday that he’ll submit to one debate this fall against Democrat Lupe Valdez — during Friday night football.

National Guard troops are once again on duty in South Texas, working to help the understaffed U.S. Border Patrol who is promising better results in the partnership compared to years past.

Over the past year, about 40 percent of undocumented immigrants caught crossing the United States’ southern border were apprehended along a 300-mile stretch of the Rio Grande Valley. After President Trump dispatched the National Guard to the RGV, NBC 5 Investigates went along to observe the patrols.

A North Texas clinic that claimed to treat traumatized war veterans by spinning them around in a chair declared bankruptcy last week without repaying about $200,000 in taxpayer money demanded after a critical audit.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday spared the life of a convicted killer shortly before the man’s scheduled execution.

President Donald Trump is considering ousting embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, who has faced an insurgency within his department and fresh allegations that he used a member of his security detail to run personal errands.