Texas Central's recent victory in the Supreme Court of Texas has reignited the conversation about the proposed 240-mile high-speed train from Houston to Dallas.
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) released a list of school safety requirements on Thursday, requiring Texas districts to secure doors, train staff, and review threat response plans by Sept. 1.
A group of eight public school educators and one university professor have suggested the changes for second graders to the Texas State Board of Education, which is considering social studies curriculum revisions this summer.
Officials in Anderson County have released the mugshot of a man arrested in Palestine in connection with the deaths of 53 migrants in the back of a semi-truck in San Antonio.
William Reece, 62, pleaded guilty in a courtroom in Galveston in the 1997 killings of 12-year-old Laura Smither of Friendswood and 17-year-old Jessica Cain of Tiki Island.
Minister Patrick Johnson of J-Star Ministries is collecting school supplies for students in Uvalde. Johnson says he hopes to provide supplies for 4,000 students in the town.
The bodies were discovered Monday afternoon on the outskirts of San Antonio in what is believed to be the nation’s deadliest smuggling episode on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The dead include 27 people from Mexico, 14 from Honduras, seven from Guatemala and two from El Salvador, said Francisco Garduño, chief of Mexico’s National Immigration Institute.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday that Texas will add new checkpoints for trucks entering the state from Mexico after after over 50 migrants died in connection with an abandoned tractor-trailer found in San Antonio.
Owners of a popular supermarket chain based in southwestern Texas are committing millions to help the Uvalde community move forward after May’s deadly mass shooting.
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Texas Highway Patrol (THP) will be initiating two traffic safety campaigns during the holiday weekend looking for people violating traffic laws from Friday, July 1, through Monday, July 4.
Celia Sally Gonzalez, 66 years of age was shot in the face inside her home by her grandson Salvador Ramos before he opened fire at Robb Elementary in Uvalde on May 24.
Police said staff at the North Texas State Hospital in Vernon, near the Oklahoma border, reported Alexander Scott Ervin missing from the hospital early Monday morning.
A ban in effect before Roe v. Wade cannot be used, as threatened last week by Attorney General Ken Paxton, according to a judge’s ruling Tuesday. However, the stopgap measure will, at most, extend abortion access in the state for two months.
According to a Justice Department spokesperson, the “critical incident review team” will start its first on-site visit to Robb Elementary School this week.
The Vernon Police Department said Alexander Scott Ervin, 29, a patient held on murder charges from Travis County for Murder, escaped from the North Texas State Hospital.
Texas abortion providers and abortion funds ceased operations in the state on Friday for fear of being criminally charged under state laws that pre-date Roe v. Wade.
More than any other senator, Sen. John Cornyn is responsible for shepherding the landmark legislation through the chamber. He did so by embracing compromise and his own political risk.
Jim Tolbert spoke with News 3′s Rusty Surette about the challenges that eventually led up to the closure of Vista’s campuses including the one in College Station.
An indictment shows that Bluford Lewis Clary is facing charges for conducting, financing, managing and supervising the illegal gambling business known as “Red Room Gambling Room.”
The Houston Texans had been told that their former quarterback Deshaun Watson was sexually assaulting and harassing women during massage sessions, but instead of trying to stop him, the team provided him with resources to enable his actions and “turned a blind eye” to his behavior, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.
The democratic gubernatorial candidate told The Texas Tribune he would work to repeal Texas’ abortion ban and expand access to reproductive health care if elected.
