In Texas, property taxes generate nearly half the total tax revenue statewide. They fund local governments and schools.

More than 1,000 unionized Starbucks workers are planning to strike at 65 U.S. stores starting Thursday. The strike was ...

Reed Sheppard had a season-high 21 points in a drubbing of the Wizards as he settles into an elevated role on the NBA's ...

Forecast models now show the system tracking farther north, keeping most of the rain out of the Houston area. Several upper-level disturbances may introduce a 10 to 20% chance of a stray downpour ...

The veteran guard and big man were central characters in the Longhorns' win, a possible sign of things to come this season.

Fans of Danmei same-sex romance stories in China say the government is cracking down harder than ever on the popular genre.

A former Marine convicted of killing a 6-year-old girl more than four decades ago is scheduled for execution in Florida, ...

Classes in schools and colleges have been disrupted and transportation has been halted across Bangladesh as the former ruling ...

President Donald Trump often offers ideas that once seem outlandish, then repeating them until they gain traction and begin ...

Sergio Melendro was among hundreds of children missing after a volcanic eruption devastated Armero, Colombia, in 1985 and his ...

Michelle Obama says that on any day during the eight years she was first lady of the United States, she could go from giving ...

While delegates at a U.N. conference discussed how to fulfill past promises on fighting climate change, a boisterous ...