Every ten years, state lawmakers are required to re-draw voting maps — but how they do it can have a big impact on who holds ...

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Texas lawmakers will be able to draw more aggressively partisan maps for the state House, Senate and education board when they return in 2027.

FILE: An empty classroom (Jon Cherry, Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) HOUSTON – The rollout of Texas’ new Education Freedom Account ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has approved firing squads, electrocution, and gas asphyxiation as federal execution options, citing shortages of lethal injection drugs. In Laredo, residents and legal ...

Texas-based Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and 11 other companies have nabbed more than $3.2 billion in Space Force deals to build space-based missile interceptors as part of Donald Trump’s ...

The sun sets behind the hemp crop at Bingham Family Vineyards in Meadow. Recreational marijuana is not legal in Texas, but you can still buy THC. Federal legislation passed in 2018 allowed Texas ...

In this file photo, a Keller traffic officer tickets a driver for speeding along U.S. 377. Ron T. Ennis Star-Telegram A viral video of a traffic stop involving King Harris, the son of rapper T.I., is ...

Texas lawmakers continue efforts to lower property taxes, but the state still ranks among the highest in the nation for effective property tax rates, leaving many homeowners with steep bills. One of ...

When Scooter Mangold first heard how much water Microsoft’s data center engineers were requesting from his Central Texas water company, he didn’t just say no. “I told them they’d lost their minds,” ...

A Texas commission has thrown a curve ball at county and city plans to lure the bureaucracy in charge of the military’s medical system to San Antonio — a relocation that could bring thousands of jobs ...

Purdue and Texas meet in the Sweet 16 Thursday night. Follow along for live updates throughout the game as the Boilers hope to continue their season. It may be hard to believe, but we've already ...