President Donald Trump is federalizing up to 400 Texas National Guard personnel for deployment to Oregon, Illinois and possibly elsewhere, according to a memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that was submitted as part of a lawsuit over a different deployment.

A Hill Country school in Kerr County is being recognized among hundreds across the state for its academic performance.

The latest calls to stave off the politically charged execution come after a summer where GOP leaders asked the state courts to kick Democrats out of office and throw Beto O’Rourke in jail.

The funding deal would reportedly ask the university to adopt a stricter definition of gender and a tuition freeze, among other conditions.

Gov. Greg Abbott said state troopers and local law enforcement will start an effort in Harris County that he hopes to duplicate in other parts of Texas.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced a Harris County-based task force on Wednesday to target repeat offenders.

The federal and state governments want restrictions on recognizing trans and nonbinary people. Here’s how Texas’ higher education leaders are responding.

For the first time since Texas authorized the program, the state heard public testimony from people concerned about pre-K funding, special education provisions and data reporting.

The expression ‘stay woke’ started out as an affirmation for African Americans.

Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday directed the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) to strengthen security around places of worship following a rise in attacks against religious communities.

Free speech experts say that when teachers speak in their personal capacity, even on school grounds but outside their official duties, they retain their right to comment on matters of public concern.

The low-interest loan to NRG Energy for a gas-fired power plant is the largest of three loans approved through the $7 billion fund since its creation in 2023.

The son of the late former Gov. Mark White vowed to run as an independent in the Democratic gubernatorial primary.

Another San Antonio-area school district is caught in the crosshairs of Texas’ new law that requires donated posters of the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms.

Camp Mystic will partially reopen in summer 2026, a year after catastrophic flooding killed 27 campers and counselors on the Fourth of July.

Two state agencies have now adopted the temporary rule while they work to adopt formal rules to limit who can buy THC products.

Gov. Greg Abbott called for a student to be expelled for celebrating Kirk’s death. Legal experts say the student’s speech is likely constitutionally protected.

One company, known for making wholesome memories, is taking advantage of recent inaction by the Texas legislature to begin delivering hemp products.

Texas A&M University’s president is stepping down amid a controversy roiling the campus.

The university's announcement came hours after Gov. Greg Abbott called for the student's expulsion.

Texas State University says it has identified a student who appeared to mock conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s death in a widely circulated social media video.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is putting out a warning to those publicly mocking the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk — “FAFO.”

The firing happened over two years after Texas A&M stressed its support for academic freedom and amid a changing higher education landscape.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Friday called Abbott’s decision a pathway to full legalization of cannabis, including marijuana which is still federally illegal. Hemp-derived THC is legal.

The executive order comes after the Legislature ended a special session without the House, Senate and governor agreeing on restrictions.

Another special Texas legislative session ended without action on banning or further regulating consumable hemp products. However, a narrower ban on certain vapes has taken away one popular way to consume THC variations.

The measures intended to make camps safer are also raising concerns about potential economic consequences to the Hill Country.

Joined by a throng of lawmakers and the families of flood victims from Camp Mystic, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed three flood and camp safety bills into law.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott will sign two camp safety bills into law on Friday morning in Austin in response to the deadly July flooding.

The families of some of the children who died at Texas' Camp Mystic during catastrophic flooding two months joined Gov. Greg Abbott for a ceremonial bill signing.

Two months after the Hill Country floods, two pieces of state legislation outlining new safety requirements for summer camps is headed to Governor Greg Abbott’s desk for his signature

More than 10,000 people met over Labor Day weekend in Slaton to sample the banana pudding — a major boost to the rural town’s economy.

Missouri has become the third state to embrace a mid-decade redesign of its U.S. House districts in a quest for partisan advantage.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott and First Lady Cecilia Abbott joined AT&T officials to give away more than 200 laptops to Center Point Independent School District students on Thursday.

The new maps, which aim to flip five Democratic seats to favor Republicans, will go into effect for the 2026 midterms, barring court intervention.

Both legislative chambers adjourned without agreeing on changes to Senate Bill 2, which aimed to create new training and licensing requirements for local officials.

Between cracking down on abortion pills and restricting transgender restroom use, lawmakers also tackled flood safety and the STAAR test. Left untouched: Texas’ hemp industry.

House Bill 8 scraps the unpopular exam for three shorter tests at the beginning, middle and end of the year starting in the 2027-28 school year.

A bill that would let Texas residents sue out-of-state abortion pill providers for up to $100,000 has been passed by lawmakers and sent to the governor.

Legislators couldn’t reach a last-minute deal to tighten regulations on consumable hemp products.

The House refused to back a bill that would apply only to the state’s largest cities.

A judge in Utah has ruled that the state must proceed right away with redrawing the state's congressional districts.

The bill walks back a measure lawmakers passed earlier this year allowing voters to update their address at the polls and immediately vote in their new precinct and district if their move was within the county.

House members who freeze future legislation by fleeing Texas will face steeper fines, loss of seniority and committee posts, and limits on political fundraising.

California voters will decide in November whether to OK a new congressional map that would benefit Democrats.

Senate Bill 10 seeks to limit the growth of property tax rates after a disaster. One expert argues, however, the bill fails to meaningfully reform the process because it is written too loosely.

The governor was expected to sign off on the new district lines, which passed the Legislature last week and aim to flip five Democratic seats in the 2026 midterms.

The suit alleges the new state law unconstitutionally silences the viewpoints of students and teachers. The law’s supporters say DEI programs use public funds to promote political agendas.

Missouri’s Republican governor is calling a special legislative session to redraw the state’s U.S. House districts.

Senate Bill 8, which goes into effect on Dec. 4, restricts bathroom use in government buildings and schools to the sex assigned at birth.

Small business owners in Kerrville, Ingram struggle to get back on their feet, facing up to millions of dollars in rebuilds

House Bill 26 advanced out of the Texas Legislature on Aug. 27, two days after being added to the second special session’s agenda.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. complimented Texas as Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a prohibition on using state tax dollars on specific products with additives, among other measures.

Voting-rights advocates are suing to overturn all of the redistricting plans drawn by Texas Republicans meant to favor Republicans in 2026 midterm elections, saying the map weakens the electoral influence of Black voters.

Utah is the latest state at the center of a national redistricting battle ahead of the 2026 midterms.

The measure comes four years after the state’s highest criminal court ruled the agency could not bring election cases without an invitation from local prosecutors.

The Utah Legislature will need to rapidly redraw the state’s congressional boundaries after a judge ruled the Republican-controlled body circumvented safeguards put in place by voters to ensure districts aren’t drawn to favor any party.

Legislation pushed by Gov. Greg Abbott would bar voters at the polls from immediately casting a ballot based on a last-minute update to their address.

A Dallas businessman has proposed studying the aquifer to see if he can pump millions of gallons out of East Texas, a plan that residents distrust.

Democrats said the walkout inspired a national protest against GOP redistricting. But it also greased the path for other bills they oppose and unified Texas Republicans.

The drug used to treat various parasites could become more accessible to families if House Bill 25 passes.

KSAT reporter Avery Everett spoke one-on-one with Gov. Abbott about the current special session.

Senate Bill 10 would close a lever actively being considered to fund disaster recovery from the Hill Country Floods

One lawsuit, filed by LULAC on behalf of 13 Texas residents, states that the redrawn districts in the new map are racially discriminatory and violate voter protection laws.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has promised to sign a new congressional voting map designed to help Republicans maintain their slim majority in Congress.

The push to redraw congressional maps in Texas is shifting the dynamics of the state’s 2026 Senate campaign.

Gavin Newsom is having a moment.

Moves by Texas Republicans and California Democrats to redraw their U.S. House districts could disrupt a rare partisan balance in American politics.

The Texas Senate has given final approval to a new, Republican-leaning congressional voting map, sending it to Gov. Greg Abbott for his signature.

The Alaska State Medical Board has approved preliminary language that could result in disciplinary action against medical professionals who provide gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

The League of United Latin American Citizens and the NAACP held a joint press conference to express frustration with the bill, calling it a suppression of minority voters.

The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country has a four-pronged recovery plan: rebuilding homes, supporting mental health, economic recovery, and reviving the area’s quality of life.

President Donald Trump is praising his military crackdown on crime and immigration in Washington, D.

California voters will decide in a November special election whether to approve a redrawn congressional map designed to help Democrats win five more U.S. House seats next year.

The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country has committed $40 million to a housing fund to help people displaced by the July 4 floods.

The governor announced he was expanding his special session agenda shortly after the Texas House passed a congressional map that Democrats had delayed by leaving the state.

The Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives has passed a redrawn congressional map that creates up to five new winnable GOP seats in Congress.

Immigrants face increased risks this hurricane season due to aggressive immigration enforcement.

Texas’ House of Representatives is approving a new map that creates up to five new, winnable congressional seats for the GOP.

Texas Democrats are joining a colleague who can't leave the state Capitol because she won't agree to having law enforcement officers shadow her.

A California hearing on Democrats' redistricting effort turned into a shouting match Tuesday.

Texas Democrats have ended a two-week walkout that stalled efforts to redraw congressional districts as part of a national partisan brawl over President Donald Trump’s desire to reshape U.S. House maps to his advantage.

Senators moved fast on Gov. Greg Abbott’s agenda for the second special session. With House Democrats back in Texas, bills can now move through that chamber.

Texas lawmakers redrew congressional districts in a partisan bid to give Republicans five additional U.S. House seats. The move set off a bipartisan war across the U.S.

After two weeks out of state, Democratic lawmakers returned to Austin, paving the way for Republicans to pass their proposed congressional map.

Conservative activist Laura Loomer complained on social media about children from Gaza arriving in the U.S. for medical treatment and questioned how they got visas.

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.