AUSTIN -- Gov. Greg Abbott appointed Texas Supreme Court Justice Jimmy Blacklock to be the court's chief justice and named James Sullivan as a justice Monday.
LOS ANGELES -- Rescue crews searched Mount Whitney on Saturday for a Texas man who went missing this week while attempting to summit the notoriously challengin…
DALLAS -- Renewable energy's rapid ascent in Texas could face new obstacles in 2025 after several lawmakers filed bills that would increase government oversigh…
DALLAS -- After a year in which he helped reshape the Texas Legislature, Gov. Greg Abbott is at the zenith of his political power.
NEW ORLEANS -- The man who rammed a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers in New Orleans had suspected bomb-making materials at his home and reserve…
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is poised to take over as chairman of a Senate committee with jurisdiction over a wide swath of the U.S. economy, including te…
DALLAS -- Jason Alan Thornburg showed no emotion as the judge read his death sentence aloud. A few jurors, who had decided the murderous former street preacher…
Most Texas drivers will no longer be required to have their cars pass an annual safety exam after state lawmakers removed the rule from Texas code.
LUFKIN -- Tonya Jackson left an Angelina County nursing home on a recent December day, happy with the successful resolution she brokered between the staff and …
A beloved goat owned by a suburban Austin, Texas, high school student died suddenly in October, and now the owner's classmate stands accused of using a pestici…
AUSTIN -- The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a state bar complaint alleging a top official in the state attorney general's office lied to the U.S. Su…
HEBBRONVILLE, Texas -- In this corner of southern Texas, the plump cacti seem to pop out of arid dust and cracked earth, like magic dumplings.
Texas may have just experienced its longest-tracking tornado in nearly 30 years.
SAN DIEGO -- Arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico in December are little changed from a month earlier, a U.S. official said Monday, hovering n…
DALLAS -- A Colleyville man is accused of assaulting law enforcement officers during the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, officials say.
