Gov. Greg Abbott, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, business leaders and Texans tabbed for President Donald Trump’s cabinet gathered in Washington last weekend to discuss the new administration.

The proposal would create education savings accounts and give families $10,000 a year in state funds to pay for their children’s private education.

Police are searching for a prisoner who escaped custody while undergoing testing at a hospital in Bellville, Texas, on Thursday. The inmate, Salvador Saucedo, has red hair and tattoos and isn't handcuffed. He was wearing an orange shirt and blue pants when he escaped, according to the Bellville Police Department.

Showers and storms will arrive in North Texas late Saturday, Jan. 25. Rain chances (20%) will arrive with a weak cold front, with the best chances for precipitation south and east of the Metroplex, according to the National Weather Service Fort Worth. A few isolated thunderstorms are possible, although severe weather is not expected.

The rise of artificial intelligence, the digitization of the economy and everyday life’s growing computing needs have turbocharged the expansion of data centers, driving up a surge in electricity demand in Texas and across the country.

The National Weather Service warned of "abnormally low" water levels in the Galveston Bay along the upper coast of Texas.

Although Democrats will be prohibited from chairing the main legislative committees, the chamber voted to expand the powers they can have as vice chairs.

Active-duty military personnel began arriving along the southern border Thursday evening after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency to address the immigration crisis.

A Texas bakery, known for its political pastries, is viral again after selling out of Bishop Budde cookies after her sermon to President Donald Trump.

The stakes are particularly high for Texas and other border states, where trade with Mexico is worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

Both chambers set aside $1 billion for a voucher-like education savings account program — double what was on the table two years ago — in a sign that supporters are emboldened after recent electoral gains.