The state grid was built on the assumption that demand would fall at night. As hotter evenings and around-the-clock power use ...

At an April 2017 committee hearing in a meeting room tucked away in the Capitol’s underground extension, state Senator Paul Bettencourt, a bespectacled Houston Republican, touted a proposal of his ...

Al Green was a fighter past his prime, and Houstonians finally chose a new direction. But a post-Voting Rights Act world ...

Heading into what is expected to be one of the most favorable cycles for Democrats in Texas in nearly a decade, the statewide ...

Led by James Talarico, a relatively well-qualified Democratic slate—one that poorly reflects the state's demography and ...

With the press of a button in his social media app, the president puts a probable end to more than two decades of Senate ...

And so Colin Allred’s three-year journey through the wilderness of ambition ends more or less where it began. In May 2023, the NFL player-turned-civil rights attorney announced he was leaving behind a ...

In Hidalgo County's open House District 41, Bernie-backed Julio Salinas is up against McAllen City Commissioner Seby Haddad, ...

The highly dramatic—if not as thoroughly entertaining as advertised—U.S. Senate Republican runoff between Ken Paxton and John ...

In a crucial congressional race this November, Bexar County Sheriff’s Deputy Johnny Garcia vies to join the ranks of two fellow South Texas Blue Dog Dems in Washington.

Update: Bo French prevailed by about one percentage point over Jim Wright on May 26. He will face Democrat Jon Rosenthal in November. Former Tarrant County GOP Chairman Bo French is running what can ...