As Fort Worth passes Austin in population estimates, we match the capacity of Austin venues with Texas city and town sizes ...

Texas has a powerful new House speaker after years of escalating Republican infighting. Dustin Burrows won the job on Tuesday ...

The vote suggested that a period of political warfare between G.O.P. factions would continue to shape lawmaking in the state.

Austin has been the capital of Texas since 1839, but did you know a brief ‘war’ nearly made Houston the seat of power in the Lone Star State?

Abbott's comments came after A&M invited staffers and students to attend a conference that a conservative activist said broke ...

There is a new speaker of the Texas House. That was the top issue as the 89th session of the Texas Legislature began.

Here are a few of the strangest laws approved by the Texas Legislature in days gone by: It’s illegal to milk somebody else’s ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The House of Representatives was busting at the seams Tuesday afternoon as all 150 lawmakers and their ...

The Central Texas Food Bank is expanding efforts to keep Austin Independent School District students and their families fed ...

Burrow’s win was an assertion of the chamber’s longstanding independence, and it set up another session of likely clashes ...

Austin Energy received a $15 million federal grant to build more electric vehicle charging stations across Austin.