Texas’ Republican-controlled Legislature passed several top GOP initiatives during the regular 2025 legislative session. Lawmakers agreed to create a school voucher program, ban DEI initiatives in ...

Should fluoride be in your drinking water? That’s a big question buzzing around the state right now. Gov. Kevin Stitt’s ‘Make Oklahoma Healthy Again’ initiative directs the ...

news Politics. Texas lottery likely to continue after Legislature approves compromise A bill that preserves the lottery but abolishes the commission that regulates it is headed to Gov. Greg Abbott.

Louisiana lawmakers concluded their 2025 legislative session on Thursday by passing the state’s $51 billion budget.

The Texas Legislature wrapped up with state GOP leaders checking off nearly everything on their to-do lists. President Trump tells Iowa crowd that the White House will host a UFC fight for America ...

Nonetheless, Paxton’s announcement brings Texas’ stance on fluoride into question, and is likely seen favorably by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is one of the ...

CBS News Texas Live. Texas lawmakers signed off Saturday on a $338 billion two-year spending plan that directs billions toward hiking teacher pay, cutting property taxes and shoring up the state's ...

For more than 25 years, the Texas Legislature has done nothing to address this fatal design flaw. The Texas grid managed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, ERCOT, ...

Texas lawmakers gaveled out of their 140-day legislative session on Monday after passing a raft of conservative policies, from private school vouchers to tighter bail laws, that furthered the ...

Texas was a particularly good test case for the G.O.P.’s reach because for the first time in years, Republicans in the Legislature were not actively warring.

The Texas constitution limits its Legislature to a 140-day regular session every other year. The final three weeks of a session include several deadlines, setting a rapid and occasionally frenetic … ...

Your editorial “The Fluoride Toothpaste Conspiracy” (May 15) is on target. Allow me to go even further. The 2024 National Toxicology Program study that has helped fuel Texas Attorney General ...