Texas Legislature

Leaders promised a lot of change after floodwaters tore through Kerr County in 2025, killing more than 100 people. A year later, where do things stand?

The State Board of Education will vote on incorporating more Christian stories into public classrooms as well as on deemphasizing race and cultural diversity in history lessons.

Priorities for Republican leadership last legislative session have either been stuck in the courts or left to linger in the state rulemaking process.

Allegations filed in the first five months of the new ombudsman’s work challenged course content, DEI, academic freedom and employment disputes.

Since last July Fourth’s devastating floods in Texas, state lawmakers have been hearing stories from survivors, testimony from emergency officials and getting debriefs on investigations related to the flood. The Texas Newsroom's Blaise Gainey reports today, they’re meeting to adopt a report on the flood to guide new procedures to protect Texans during future natural disasters. With heat advisories expected this summer across Lubbock and the South Plains, KTTZ's Gabrielle De La Cruz has more on what to look out for and where West Texans can go for help.

More than 130 cities, most with fewer than 10,000 residents, were blocked from increasing their property tax revenue because they had broken the law.

The high court’s 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais seriously weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and will likely result in further partisan redistricting in southern states, such as Texas.

The Eastland family, the camp's owners, testified the day after a team of investigators shared findings about a lack of emergency training among camp counselors.

The court issued a decision Monday morning allowing Texas to use the controversial congressional maps that were drawn last summer. The order reverses a lower court ruling that could have led to the maps being thrown out.

The online gaming platform is under investigation after a user-generated game recreated the Uvalde school shooting. Last year, Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the company for allegedly ignoring state and federal online safety laws by exposing children to sexually explicit content.