Texas veterans and cannabis advocates unite for “Texas Cannabis Revolution” amid Gov. Abbott’s second special session.

Democrats have struggled to find effective ways to oppose President Donald Trump, and even some Democratic voters describe the party as weak.

Advocates against a THC ban plan to rally against the legislation Saturday

Mounted patrol officers, known as tick riders, who typically patrol the southern border to protect cattle from fever tick, will also now serve as the first line of defense against screwworm.

The U.S. plans to build a $750 million factory in southern Texas to breed billions of sterile flies to ramp up its efforts to keep flesh-eating maggots now in Mexico from damaging the American cattle industry.

The Texas Department of Transportation is planning to open a new flyover ramp on the East Side, but some road closures will preempt the grand opening.

The second session is set to consider the same agenda that stalled in the first, with redistricting and disaster response at the top of the governor’s priorities.

Parents of the 27 Camp Mystic girls killed in the deadly Hill Country flooding last month met with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other state leaders to push for youth camp safety reform.

Gov. Greg Abbott was joined by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins at the Texas Capitol where Rollins announced the federal government’s plan to spend up to $850 million to prevent the New World screwworm’s arrival in the United States.

The third-term governor appears determined to win any battle — even if it means scorched-earth primary crusades or trying to boot duly elected legislators from office.

Democrats have unveiled a proposal that could give California’s dominant political party an additional five U.S. House seats in a bid to win the fight to control Congress next year.

A federal judge in San Antonio will hear arguments Friday on whether to block a new Texas law that would require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom across the state.

In a statement, the House Democratic Caucus said its lawyers had advised returning “to build a strong public legislative record for the upcoming legal battle” against the GOP’s map.

With Democrats’ walkout over redistricting bringing the House to a standstill, both parties are accusing each other of abandoning Central Texas flood victims.

In this week’s episode, Matthew and Eleanor ask University of Houston law professor David Froomkin to help them break down the legal cases seeking to remove 13 Democrats from the Texas House.

Democrats' absence has halted work in the Texas House, which must also approve the new boundaries, for more than a week.

The leaders of both chambers said they would adjourn for the session Friday if Democrats do not return, while the governor said he might add more items to his agenda.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is escalating the partisan redistricting fight by asking a judge to hold progressive activist Beto O'Rourke in contempt.

The governor and attorney general have asked the court to find that Democratic lawmakers abandoned their seats when they left Texas to delay a new congressional map.

Since Democratic lawmakers left Texas to delay Republicans’ new map, state leaders have challenged the limits of traditional democratic norms to break the impasse.

After three months, a fugitive accused of murder is now back in Bexar County.

Republicans who are censured by their county party leaders may be blocked from the primary ballot under a new party rule passed last year, that is expected to be tested by the courts.

Texas Republicans were unable again Monday to approve new congressional districts to meet President Donald Trump’s demands.

Checks from country music legend George Strait’s July benefit concert were presented to families impacted by the floods in the Texas Hill Country.

Texas Republicans have escalated the penalties against Democrats as they enter a second week camped out in states across the country to block new U.S. House maps pushed for by President Donald Trump to win more seats ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Gov. Greg Abbott previously asked the court to expel Rep. Gene Wu, the House Democratic leader. Paxton disputed the governor’s authority to make the request.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have appeared shoulder-to-shoulder with Texas Democratic lawmakers in a show of support for their nearly weeklong walkout.

Democrats concede there’s only so much they can do to keep Texas from redrawing its maps. But they want to encourage blue states to retaliate.

Texas will join several other states across the country in banning cellphones in schools starting this academic year. KSAT reached out to all San Antonio-area districts for information on how they plan to implement the new law.

The Texas Supreme Court said in 2021 the Constitution allows members to thwart legislation by leaving the state. Abbott wants them to reconsider.

Texas Democratic lawmakers who left the state to block a Republican plan for congressional redistricting are pleading for donations to help cover their costs.

The proposal would put tighter limits on how much property tax revenue cities and counties of a certain size can collect each year.

J. Bruce Bugg, Jr., the chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission, has died. The Texas Department of Transportation announced Bugg’s “sudden passing” on Wednesday.

Texas Republicans and President Donald Trump are pushing to redraw congressional maps to secure more GOP seats in the U.S. House next year.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has asked the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to remove from office a top state lawmaker he called the “ringleader” of Democrats who left the state to block a vote on a new congressional voting map pushed by President Donald Trump.

Legal experts say it’s “inconsistent with the Texas Constitution” to argue that leaving the state to halt legislative action qualifies as abandoning an office.

The House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, part of a congressional probe that lawmakers believe may show links to President Donald Trump and other former top officials.

Texas and California are at the center of a national political power struggle that could reshape Trump's second presidency.

While Republicans back in Austin have threatened to take action against the Texas Democratic legislators on the lam, their options could be limited.

Texas Republicans are trying to redraw congressional districts to pick up five additional U.S. House seats. Democrats face financial and political risk in their bid to block the GOP plan.

Democrats fled the state to stop Republicans’ attempt to redraw congressional districts, but bills aimed at everything from a THC product ban to bolstering flood response are now in doubt.

The warrants apply only within state lines, making them largely symbolic as most of the legislators in question decamped to Illinois, New York and Massachusetts.

Dozens of Democratic state lawmakers in Texas have scattered across the country in a last-ditch effort to prevent Republicans from adopting U.S. House maps that President Donald Trump wants in place before the 2026 midterm elections.

Dozens of Democratic lawmakers have left Texas in an attempt to block the adoption of redrawn U.S. House maps sought by President Donald Trump.

Texas Democrats have prevented their state’s House of Representatives from moving forward, at least for now, with a redrawn congressional map sought by President Donald Trump.

Texas Democrats said the state legislature is holding flood victims “hostage” by focusing on approving new congressional maps, instead of working to provide aid.

While the Democrats could technically derail the GOP’s redistricting map, such efforts have been largely symbolic and had limited success blocking past legislation, experts say.

Texas Democrats have left the state in an attempt to prevent the state House from holding a vote Monday on new congressional maps that Republicans hope will net them several additional U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterm elections.

Democratic lawmakers are trying to build a case that Republicans in Texas have engineered a rushed and unfair process for redrawing the state’s congressional districts.

Gov. Greg Abbott will be in Amarillo on Friday to sign House Bill 1481, known as the Phone-Free Classrooms bill. Stream the event here.

The five-year-old plan, required by the state, detailed when additional monitoring was to take place and who was responsible for alerting the public to evacuate.

Two top leaders in a rural Texas county were asleep and a third was out of town in the initial hours of a catastrophic flood that caused widespread destruction and killed more than 130 people.

Ten more counties have been added to a federal disaster declaration following flooding across Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday.

The Senate’s decision signals another potential standoff with Gov. Greg Abbott, who vetoed a similar ban earlier this year as he called for more regulations instead.

Texas Republicans have proposed a new congressional map that creates five additional GOP-leaning districts as they brace for a challenging midterm election in 2026.

The Kendall County Emergency Management Office provided cleanup updates and announced a new debris call center during a Tuesday afternoon news conference.

At the first of at least seven hearings, members of the public aired grievances about the unusual mid-decade redistricting effort.

Texas Democrats on Thursday slammed the GOP's unusual push to redraw the state's House maps to win more seats ahead of the 2026 elections.

The deadline for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients to apply for replacement benefits for food lost or destroyed in recent catastrophic flooding has been extended, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday.

The Disaster Preparedness and Flooding Joint Committee met for the first time on Wednesday with the goal of improving flood warning systems, communications, allocating funding and preparing plans ahead of the next natural disaster.

The Texas governor added Edwards, Kinney, Real and Schleicher counties to the state disaster declaration.

Senate Bill 5 would ban products containing any detectable amount of any cannabinoid, creating criminal offenses for possession of hemp-derived THC.

Texas lawmakers are scrutinizing the state’s emergency response to the July 4 floods that killed at least 136 people.

Far beyond Harvard University and its standoff with the Trump administration, Republican officials in several states have been pushing for changes at public universities.

Only one girl from Camp Mystic and one adult male remain missing more than two weeks after the deadly Hill Country floods, Gov. Greg Abbott said on social media Tuesday.

The joint committee of state legislators assembled by Gov. Greg Abbott to address the flooding in the Hill Country and Central Texas is scheduled to meet on Wednesday, as part of the special session.

The governor eventually agreed to include redistricting on his special session agenda after discussing the matter with the president on a phone call.

After the devastating and deadly July 4 floods in the Hill Country, emergency response became the priority for the Texas legislature's special session.

Kerr County officials addressed the Fourth of July floods that killed dozens of people during a commissioners’ court meeting on Monday morning.

Texas Republicans are poised to redraw the state’s congressional map during a special session that starts Monday.

Texas lawmakers will reconvene at the Capitol on Monday for a special legislative session to address 18 agenda items, including the implementation of flood warning systems after the deadly July flooding in the Hill Country.

The number of people still missing in a Texas county ravaged by deadly flooding over the Fourth of July holiday weekend now stands at three, down from nearly 100.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was complementary to Tom Green County's emergency response to the deadly Fourth of July floods.

Maverick and Uvalde counties are among the five newest counties that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott added to his disaster declaration following this week’s devastating flooding across Texas, his office announced on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump is pushing Republicans in Texas to redraw the state's congressional maps to help ensure the party keeps its majority in the U.S. House in next year's midterm elections.

As search and rescue efforts continue in several parts of the Hill Country, at least 107 people — 70 adults and 37 children — were reportedly killed in connection with the deadly Fourth of July flooding, Kerr County officials said Tuesday afternoon.

The number of people missing in the Kerrville area due to the Fourth of July floods has been reduced to 97, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said during a news conference on Monday.

The number of people missing in the Kerrville area due to the Fourth of July floods has been reduced to 97, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said during a news conference on Monday.

Officials are keeping a wary eye on river levels as some crews resume the search for people still missing after catastrophic flooding pummeled Texas this month.

Heavy rains on Sunday caused evacuations and rescues in parts of already-flood-ravaged Central Texas.

City of Kerrville Mayor Joe Herring Jr. introduced a new website on Saturday where residents can receive comprehensive information and resources following the recent deadly Hill Country floods.

After more than 100 people were killed due to flooding in Kerr and Kendall counties, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump made their first visit on Friday to the Hill Country.

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) has launched the Texas Flooding Emotional Support Line for people affected by the Hill Country floods.

Rescue efforts began Friday, but FEMA did not deploy its network of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday.

President Donald Trump said he has “never seen anything like” the devastation of the floods that ripped through the Hill Country, killing more than 120 people across Central Texas over the Fourth of July weekend. In Kerr County alone, 96 people have been confirmed dead.

President Donald Trump toured the devastation from catastrophic flooding in Texas and lauded local officials amid mounting criticism that they failed to warn residents quickly enough that a deadly wall of water was coming their way.

As of 8 a.m. on Thursday, 96 people — 60 adults and 36 children — are dead in Kerr County after Hill Country flooding, authorities said.

Texas officials say more than 170 people are considered unaccounted for after extraordinary floods swamped parts of Kerr County and nearby areas.

The 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial” in Tennessee, where a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, continues to influence debates on religion in public schools.

Sadness is settling in across Texas where at least 120 people have died from flash floods and more are missing.

Gov. Greg Abbott announced that the Texas Workforce Commission is accepting applications for Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) due to the recent flooding in Kerr County.

The Republican governor laid out an ambitious agenda that includes an unexpected array of conservative bills that failed during the regular session.

The governor said Tuesday that the state had “assets, resources and personnel” in place before the July 4 floods. On Wednesday evening, the death toll rose to 120.

As of 6:25 p.m. on Wednesday, 96 people — 60 adults and 36 children — are dead after Hill Country flooding, Kerr County officials said.

Texas police described some of the harrowing rescues they conducted after flash floods engulfed camps and homes in the state's Hill Country.

Just weeks ago, President Donald Trump said he wanted to begin “phasing out” the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this hurricane season to “wean off of FEMA” and “bring it down to the state level.”.

Officials in Texas are facing questions about whether they did enough to get people out of harm’s way before a flash flood swept down the Guadalupe River and killed at least 120 people, including more than two dozen children and counselors at an all-girls Christian camp.

In a news conference Tuesday afternoon in Kerr County, Gov. Greg Abbott said 161 people are still missing following deadly floods in the Hill Country, including five campers and one counselor from Camp Mystic.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says more than 160 people are believed to be still missing days after flash floods killed more than 100 people across central Texas.

Flash flooding in Texas Hill Country has triggered one of the largest rescue operations in the state’s history.