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.

It was late summer 2008, and Hurricane Ike had just struck, decimating parts of the upper Texas Gulf Coast. But Goat Island — a spit of swampy land just east of Galveston — also flooded, and with it ...

Gov. Greg Abbott called for blocking new data center development in rural parts of the state during a campaign stop in East Texas on Tuesday. “We must prohibit them from building AI data centers in ...

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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.

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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.