The Texas House filed priority legislation on Thursday that would allow some families to use taxpayer dollars to fund their ...

HB 2466 could change when employers ask about criminal history—but key details remain unclear. Find out what’s at stake, ...

Senate Joint Resolution 1, or "Jocelyn's Law," would keep people without authority to be in the U.S. who are charged with ...

House Bill 4, by State Rep. Brad Buckley, R-Salado, would also expand the Texas Education Agency’s powers to sanction school ...

The Texas House on Thursday filed a sweep of education bills including public school finance and school voucher proposals.

More Texas officials have joined calls for an evaluation of the Texas Lottery after a controversial $83.5 million ticket was ...

A red state has taken direct aim at a New York law that protects residents who help abortion seekers elsewhere in the country ...

The debate over bail reform is intensifying in Texas, with Governor Greg Abbott declaring it an emergency item.

The Bail Project, a national organization that helps low-income defendants pay bail, said the bill is "based entirely on ...

All of the Texas Observer’s articles are available for free syndication for news sources under the following conditions: ...

Oilmen against limits on oil production attacked a state representative at the Stephen F. Austin hotel in 1933. The attack ...

President Trump’s Executive Order 14160, which aims to strip citizenship from children born on U.S. soil to parents who did ...