Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows adjourned the 2025 Legislature’s first special session sine die Friday morning, telling lawmakers “not to go very far.” That move set in motion a series of events ...

Texas House Democrats announced Thursday they will only return to Austin for the Texas Legislature's second special session when California begins their own redistricting process. "Trump thought he ...

Thirty-four panels from the National AIDS Memorial Quilt are on display at First Baptist Church of Austin from Aug. 16 to 24.

It’s now week two of a quorum break by more than 50 Texas House Democrats who left the state to block a new, Republican-backed congressional district map. A lot has happened so far — from court ...

Austin police spent nearly double their allotted budget for overtime last year. The fire department spent more than anticipated, too. That could change in the new budget.

Jones has lost control of his media empire to a newly appointed receiver, who will sell it off to pay the Sandy Hook Elementary School families who sued Jones for defamation after the 2012 shootings.

But on Tuesday, top state Republicans said they would draw the special session to an early conclusion this Friday, only to gavel back in for another session the same day. Gov. Greg Abbott said in a ...

E.L. Alford’s tenure in the Texas Senate lasted just 343 days. There are no photographs of him in the legislative archives. Even his full name is difficult to come by. But Alford played a huge role in ...

A group of about 15 staff members and volunteers crowded inside a small supply room at Austin Community College's Eastview Campus on Tuesday. They were there, working to replenish the campus' food ...

Last month's disastrous flooding has a lot of people thinking about the flood risk in their own homes and neighborhoods. Even if they’ve never experienced a flood in the past, could enough rain ...

The parks department has begun acquiring new land, conserving wildlife and establishing trails for public use.

The footprints were created some 115 million years ago, when what is now a Central Texas suburb was a beach on the Western Interior Seaway.