As Texas counties have faced hurdles to curb the rapid growth of data center developments, cities could have more success with banning them through their zoning laws, land experts say.

Abbott previously outlined a broad regulatory framework around data centers amid backlash from rural communities around their impact on residential neighborhoods.

Dallas has seen a $30 million budget shortfall driven by slower sales tax revenue and higher-than-expected overtime costs for police and firefighters.

A Democratic board member says colleagues harassed her in social media posts during Texas’ debate over how history is taught. The GOP members deny any bullying.

Black elected officials said the Senate nominee had more work to do to engage voters in their communities, while noting there was still time to do so before November.

Of the more than 200 rural counties in Texas, about 70% have no hospital at all or have hospitals that don’t have facilities for delivering babies.

Completing a pilgrimage from a World War II internment camp in Crystal City, activists said history is repeating itself with family detentions at the Dilley facility.

There is bipartisan agreement that the country is not producing nearly enough sterile flies to combat the flesh-eating parasite, which threatens to wreak havoc on Texas’ livestock industry.

James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa, who will lead Texas Democrats’ ticket in November, closed the first full day of their party’s state convention Friday with speeches that sharply focused on populist ...

States that already ran voter rolls through the revamped federal SAVE immigration database can continue ongoing investigations of the estimated 24,000 voters it flagged.

The iconic Latina labor and civil rights leader, who is 96, voiced optimism that community organizing could draw voters in a state with some of the lowest turnout anywhere in the nation.

Thousands of corrections — from typos to copyright concerns — are needed in state-produced reading and math materials used by hundreds of public schools.