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Thousands of Texas transfer students each year don’t get credit for some community college courses. The partnership seeks to address that.

Texas Tribune journalist Jayme Lozano Carver has written about health care for years. Most recently, she reported on how little access there is for women and new moms in the Texas Panhandle.

At a gathering for teachers in Houston, educators saw Harris as a potential ally at a time when conservatives push for changes in Texas classrooms.

Federal clinics in Texas are already required to get parental permission to prescribe birth control after a 2022 court ruling.

Jason Wells told regulators the company will launch a new outage tracker by Aug. 1. It will also trim more tree limbs near power lines and hire an executive to focus on emergency response.

Black and Asian American voters collectively made up just 15% of the turnout in Texas’ 2020 and 2022 elections, according to exit polls.

We want to hear from all Texans – even if you can’t vote or are not sure you want to vote.

Local leaders of the Nurse-Family Partnership hope they can secure money to expand the program to the region’s rural areas.

Adrian Gonzalez appeared in court Thursday after being indicted over law enforcement’s delay in confronting a gunman. Pete Arredondo previously pleaded not guilty.

County officials issued a disaster declaration Tuesday, saying the state’s mass arrests at the border have cost the county millions of dollars and overwhelmed its criminal justice system.

Following Hurricane Beryl’s large-scale power outages, state officials launched an investigation and legislative hearings to scrutinize CenterPoint’s response after the storm.

In a Q&A, Doggett, 77, discusses his role in the recent chain of historic events and his feelings about where the party goes from here.

Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Austin will get funds to visit more students in rural communities and small towns.

At least one school district, Tolar ISD in North Texas, told the ACLU it would update its policies to comply with the CROWN Act.

The arts center that organizes the monthly art walk, which draws 20,000 to downtown Lubbock, said the drag show happened at an off-site location and had no association with it.

Wednesday’s ruling is the second time a Texas judge has ruled against the attorney general for investigating shelters helping migrants.

A new FCC rule means a cap of 5 cents a minute for most inmate phone and video calls in the state of Texas.

The statewide Democratic project will allow candidates across the ballot to share data and coordinate on grassroots operations.

At least three Democrats are considering bids for the Houston-area seat. But Harris County Democratic officials — not voters — will decide who will be on the November ballot.

The visit will come days after President Joe Biden said he would not seek reelection and endorsed Harris’ bid for the Democratic Party’s nomination.

The president will speak at the Lyndon Baines Johnson presidential library to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The state’s booming population, congestion problems and billions of federal dollars on the table have officials eyeing ways to boost passenger rail.

The number of fines for breaking state campaign ethics laws has exploded in recent years as Ken Paxton’s office rarely pursues stricter enforcement.

Everything wrong with border security is the fault of the Democratic vice president, these Republicans say.

So far, 23 people have died after Beryl made landfall on July 8.

Under a Harvard Medical School pilot program, church members and leaders will work as interns before counseling on their own, referring more serious cases to medical providers.

The program helps low-income people with heating and cooling bills, but advocates say it disadvantages Texas and other warm-weather states, even though extreme heat is a key cause of weather-related deaths.

The delegates voted late Monday, a day after President Joe Biden exited the presidential race and endorsed Harris.

The vice president is not guaranteed the Democratic nomination and some delegates want an open nominating process.

The Waxahachie Republican served as chief budget writer for the Texas House for nearly a decade. He died in Dallas surrounded by loved ones.