State News

The deadline has arrived for private firms to turn in their proposals to save the historic Astrodome.

The Southern Baptist Convention is gathering in Houston for its annual meeting at a time when the denomination is contemplating a different cultural and political climate than a decade ago.

An off-duty police officer is one of two people dead after a highway crash in Houston.

Volunteers in West are still picking through donated items sent to the tiny city damaged by a fertilizer plant blast.

Investigators say four people have been killed in South Texas traffic accident involving a truck, a motorcycle and a car.

A New Jersey court has upheld the conviction of a Texas man who was arrested in 2009 with 21 guns in his car.

A new publication reveals the Austin metro area over the course of a decade saw the nation's second-fastest increase in the number of poor people living in the suburbs.

After about a three-month trial, District Judge John Dietz ruled in favor of 600-plus school districts that the state's public school funding system is unconstitutional. Video

The state comptroller estimates that Texas will generate $92.6 billion in general revenue in 2014-2015, a major jump in tax collection from the last two-year budget cycle. Susan Combs released the estimate Monday, the day before the 83rd Texas Legislature convenes. She also reported $8.8 billion in surplus revenue

Thursday was the second day in a row that a federal panel in Washington D.C. overturned a Texas case involving the way we vote, calling both "discriminatory". Video