For candidates like Talarico, calling to suspend fuel taxes may be an easy way to sell “affordability” to swing voters. But ...

On a sunny mid-July evening, dozens packed into a community center in Memorial, one of west Houston’s cushier neighborhoods, to meet state Representative James Talarico, the Austin Democrat whose ...

Following the lead of the Texas National Guard, the Kinney County Sheriff’s Office is buying pepper ball and tear gas launcher rifles to potentially use against migrants to prevent them from crossing ...

Amid its water crisis, the city declined to supply public records on the Bitcoin mine's usage, citing a state law that allows ...

Meet the veteran Dallas newspaperman and devoted follower of “the religion of righteousness and truth-telling.” ...

The revival of the Dilley detention center and a scorched-earth approach to immigration arrests has led advocates to embrace ...

In rural areas like Caldwell County, local Republican officials and citizens are scrambling to find ways to empower counties ...

In Texas and beyond, Republican leaders continue to peddle dangerous lies trying to falsely cast Muslims as the “other.” ...

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

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Editor’s Note: This article is co-published with ProPublica as part of an initiative to report on state and federal efforts to restrict local control. No state has taken over as many local public ...