The Texas Legislature approved a bill increasing the homestead exemption on school property taxes by $40,000 to $140,000. Homeowners who are 65 or older would see their exemption increase to $200,000 ...

Staff writers Philip Jankowski, Gromer Jeffers, Jr., Nolan McCaskill and Aaron Torres contributed to this report.

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Two people were killed as severe storms rattled several states. One person died in Texas floodwaters while another was killed ...

One person was killed in Texas earlier this week as an intense storm quickly tore through Austin, dumping rain that caused ...

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How did OKC go from needing volunteers and teams to sit in the stands during the Women's College World Series to being softball’s epicenter?

File photo of the Texas State Capitol Building in downtown Austin. File photo of the Texas State Capitol Building in downtown Austin. Getty Images "Our opposition comes not from a perspective of ...

A seasoned Texas lobbyist could ... bused in from across the state and herded into one of the Capitol’s main auditoriums, their exaltations echoing across the building’s hallways and ...

Public school supporters made their voices heard but Republicans in the Texas House won in the end, approving Senate Bill 2, Gov. Greg Abbott’s school voucher bill, on an 86-63 vote at 2am this ...

Sylvester Turner’s hearse arrives the House Chamber for a memorial service at Texas State Capitol in Austin, Thursday, March 13, 2025. Turner will lie in state at the Capitol building in Austin ...

SALT LAKE CITY — New Utah Auditor Tina Cannon said on the final day of the 2025 Legislature Friday that last-minute changes to a bill would push her office out of the state Capitol building ...