While efforts to completely kill the state lottery failed, the Texas Legislature abolished the Texas Lottery Commission, moved game operations to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, and ...

New Texas laws take effect in September, reshaping schools, taxes, rights, and daily routines with broad implications for ...

California lawmakers approved a November special election to ask voters to redraw the state’s electoral lines to favor ...

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill to disinter suspected serial killer Fernando V. Cota from Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.

Its backbone remains unchanged: The United States will maintain a 15 percent tariff on most goods arriving from E.U. member countries, a rate that Mr. Trump officially imposed in an executive order ...

How much will your children — or other heirs — pay when you die? That depends on whether you live in a state with no death ...

Republican lawmakers seem to have agreed on a plan to replace the STAAR exam with three through-year tests for public school ...

More than 800 new Texas laws take effect Sept. 1, governing everything from public schools and filmmaking incentives to expanded access to medical marijuana and tax-free weekends.

Jose Gregorio Gonzalez was allowed to remain in the country so he could donate a kidney to his brother, and the men are now ...