Legislation filed by State Senator Lois Kolkhorst would prohibit future land sales to citizens and governments of foreign nations.

The comments are the governor's first response to the Texas Senate's draft budget released last week.

The lieutenant governor discussed a range of legislative issues and future election dynamics in a live interview.

In an interview with The Texan, Dan Patrick revealed his intent to seek a fourth term as the lieutenant governor of Texas.

Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock is having its staff take implicit bias training, but whether it helps with patient care is debatable.

The report evaluated the University of Texas for its internal policies and practices for instances that fit the DEI mold.

The project has been in the works since 2019 and financing was preserved despite the pandemic's economic downturn.

The state's unemployment rate has been steadily improving since the middle of 2020 after the pandemic's initial brunt had passed.

The defendant confessed to running his sex trafficking organization behind bars for years.

Patrick appointed 12 Republicans and one Democrat to chair the Senate's committees, calling them the "best equipped group of senators in Texas history."

Sheriff Brad Coe said the residents of his sparsely populated county are unsafe and schools are being protected by “military barricades.”

A Texas gun store owner’s challenge to a Trump-era ban on bump stocks prevailed, with the court ruling the devices are not machine guns.

The 18-month long process only partially reached resolution this week but still has a five-month long runway as the Legislature weighs in.

Catch up on the week's hottest stories in Texas politics with the reporting team at The Texan.

With the first step cleared, the Port of Corpus Christi moves onto the second and final hurdle before it can break ground on the plant.

This week — the Texas GOP hits Speaker Phelan in a new ad, former lawmakers join a conservative think tank, and George P. Bush finds a new post after his term in public office.

The conservative group has requested that Attorney General Ken Paxton review the Texas Association of School Board’s guidelines on transgender students.

The lieutenant governor blasted a state representative’s claim placing blame on the senate for failing to pass a ban on child gender modification.

District attorneys choosing not to enforce certain laws has been a thorn in the Legislature's side of late.

The challenger gained only one vote from the two that voted against Phelan two years ago, but drummed up quite the public notice.

This biennial budget must navigate something previous ones haven't: a historic pot of surplus dollars that far exceeds the spending cap.