The Senate Finance Committee came down hard Monday on the Texas Department of Public Safety’s inefficient driver's license offices. “I would personally just say, Steve, fix the damn …
For some in the debate over how to fund Texas' schools, "Robin Hood" is decidedly a villain. The program, baked into state education law since 1993, requires the state to take funding from …
Doing your taxes isn't just about placing the correct numbers in the boxes of a form and then, as many …
Leaders of the Texas Senate are proposing giving schools $3.7 billion to provide $5,000 pay raises to all …
Top Texas lawmakers this year are proposing allocating billions of more dollars for public schools, but a …
Newly-elected State Representative John Bucy filed his first legislation since being sworn in to office, …
As Texas’ Republican leadership calls for property tax cuts and a school finance overhaul, the …
In its effort to make the airport security screening process faster, the Transportation Security …
After facing an allegation of sexual harassment, state Sen. Charles Schwertner has told the …
Rewriting the narrative of the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old girl, authorities in Houston said Sunday that they had arrested an African-American man and that their original description …
Facebook's business model has always been simple: acquire as much personal information from users as possible, then find a way to make money off of it. For more than a decade, it proved to be a …
The University of Texas System Board of Regents last Thursday unanimously voted to authorize its flagship university in Austin to arrange for a private group to construct and manage a new $338 …
As the partial federal government shutdown continues, the National Park Service says it will use funds earmarked for future projects to clean up messes like those recently reported at Yosemite and Joshua Tree national parks.
The Trump administration has delayed the release of $16 billion in storm protection funds, prompting …
Entrepreneurs who cheat on taxes with online stores, beware: The Internal Revenue Service is looking for …
Nothing lasts forever — not even 50-cent postage stamps. The United States Postal Service announced …
House Democrats are launching an ambitious effort to repair the landmark voting rights law that was …
The head of the Federal Communications Commission got on his high horse this week and told phone …
Hate crimes rose in the U.S. by more than 17 percent in 2017, the third straight year that such …
WASHINGTON — The Congressional Black Caucus is on the verge of becoming the most powerful bloc in …
BALTIMORE _ The first gathering of the nation's Catholic bishops since this summer's wave of anger …
A federal judge's ruling last Friday that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional was a first-round victory for opponents of the law. But it …
WASHINGTON – Big states such as California, New York and Texas will likely miss out on millions in sales tax revenue this holiday shopping …
It's not a lot of fun to be a U.S. House Republican in Texas these days. Since Donald Trump was sworn in as president two years ago, the Texas …
For the first time in a decade, the number of children without health insurance in the United States has risen — and Texas again has …
eto O'Rourke, coming off a closer-than-expected race against U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is no longer ruling out a 2020 presidential run.
The Trump administration has quietly resumed separating immigrant families at the border, in some cases using vague or unsubstantiated …
After a recent slew of damning headlines regarding conditions within Texas prisons, reform advocates and lawmakers are hopeful that the …
By the end of Election Day, the political maps of the state’s suburban and swing counties had a peculiar blue tint.The blue washed over the …
A battle is brewing between the Texas Education Agency and school districts over who should shoulder the costs of federally mandated ACT and SAT …