Rick Perry announced Monday in a letter to the federal government that the state will not expand its Medicaid program nor create a health insurance exchange.
Three federal judges in D.C. will begin hearing arguments in State of Texas v. Eric Holder, which finds Texas seeking pre-clearance of SB 30, a.k.a. "the Voter ID" law.
Yu Darvish is poised to be the Texas Rangers' eighth all-star when baseball's "Final Vote" promotion ends today at 3 p.m.
Does this collar make me look fat? A new study suggests that one in four dogs in Texas is obese.
A new study finds that 28 percent of Houston-area teens have sexted, but they're not particularly thrilled about it.
With approval from the Department of Homeland Security, engineering professor Todd Humphreys and a group of students successfully hacked into a UAV's GPS system.
Our favorite recent items from the Lufkin Daily News' police blotter.
Writing in the Austin American-Statesman, the governor says the U.S. is "through the looking glass in terms of border policy," and revives talk of forbidding so-called "sanctuary cities."
Natalie Plummer's handwritten grocery-bag sign warning motorists near downtown of a speed trap led to her arrest for "walking in the roadway." She claims she never left the sidewalk.
The Aggies' SEC move cleared the way for TCU's Big 12 admission, but Texas A&M's new athletic director, Eric Hyman, was the man who helped rebuild the Horned Frogs program.
The Texas Public Utility Commission decided Thursday to raise the price of wholesale energy by 50 percent.
Were cleaner beaches in 2011 an unexpected upside to the drought?
Texas dominated a new U.S. Census Bureau growth survey.
Really good, according to most reviewers. Not only does the actor "dominate" Steven Soderbergh's male stripper film, but his "hilariously self-parodying" character plays the bongos and says "all right, all right, all right."
A 911 dispatcher tipped off police while listening to two Lufkin men discuss the copper they were reportedly stealing. Oops.
The reboot prompts a resurgence of interest in Southfork Ranch.
The Congressman and erstwhile presidential candidate becomes the twenty-second member of the Congressional Baseball Hall of Fame tonight, largely on the strength of one historic homer.
Last summer, four prisoners died from heat-related causes in Texas's sweltering prisons.
Energy usage for the month of June broke records for two days in a row, as ERCOT and the Public Utilities Commission scramble to prevent rolling blackouts.
A 22-year-old Waco man allegedly beat, choked, and ate parts of his family dog in a K-2-fueled rage.
The Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy finds that the nine states with the highest personal income tax rates do as well or better as the nine states with no income tax at all.
A preliminary report from the FDA contains telling observations about Celltex, the company that Rick Perry worked with last year for his experimental back surgery.
The expansion of the Port Arthur plant briefly made it the largest in the country before an accident disabled the new 325,000-barrel-per-day crude distillation unit.
Did a genetically modified grass kill a herd of Texas cattle, or were they just another casualty of the ongoing drought?
Will the eye injury he says he suffered as a bystander in Drake and Chris Brown's alleged New York nightclub brawl stop him from playing for France?
The billionaire picked up the Waco Tribune-Herald for an undisclosed sum on Friday.
The governor discussed "Fast and Furious," the Texas DREAM Act, and his "vulture capitalist" critique of the Republican presidential nominee with CBS News's Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation.
The feds raided Jovitas, an old Austin establishment, and arrested fifteen people they say were involved in a heroin distribution ring.
New reports that Tech would rather cancel a road game against Texas State than let it be aired on the ESPN-owned, University of Texas-branded cable network shows that some teams are still smarting from wounded egos.
A scoop from the Austin American-Statesman reveals the state spent $50,000 buying up the drugs last year before other states scrambled to get them from sources abroad.
Is TNT's reboot of the classic soap opera also a mirror of the country's changing relationship with fossil fuels?
Last week, a man dressed in a suit and sunglasses casually spray-painted the word "conquista" and stenciled a bull over a 1929 Picasso at the Menil Collection before walking out.
The play-by-play man's surreal reference to a base runner "at fifth" and a "botched robbery" got national attention. He is sitting out two games for medical evaluation.
The star plugs his new movie and reveals more details about his recent wedding on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.
Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve, who is 5'5", has been turned into a unit of measurement by a baseball writer, who created a website that will convert distances into "Altuves."
A naturally large-chested woman in a sundress didn't feel the "LUV" from Southwest when a gate agent dubbed her cleavage-revealing outfit "inappropriate."
As much as anything, the economic boom in Texas depends on water. So what will industry do as the state gets drier? The Texas Tribune's Kate Galbraith explains.
He's been acquitted, but people are still talking about Roger Clemens' alleged PED use and his chances of getting voted into the Hall of Fame.
The River Systems Institute at Texas State University has deployed $30,000 drone to study environmental concerns across the state.
The New York Times profiled Jerry Patterson, the colorful and controversial Texas Land Commissioner.
The billionaire, convicted in March of running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, faced up to 230 years in prison.
Researchers from Texas A&M found that laws similar to Texas's castle doctrine actually lead to more homicides instead of deterring crime.
HBO went into damage control mode after the website io9 called attention to the "cameo."
The United States Anti-Doping Agency alleges a conspiracy by Armstrong and his former cycling teammates, dating back to 1998.
A new UT study says that children of gay parents fare worse than their straight-parented counterparts, igniting a firestorm of backlash.
The oil industry cheered news Wednesday that the tiny lizard will not be added to the endangered species list.
Those were the only Texas cities to appear on a list of the country's fifty manliest cities.
The Tyler congressman isn't buying Commerce Secretary John Bryson's story that his recent car accident was due to seizures.
The imprisoned polygamist leader, who has put out a dizzying amount of paper from his Palestine prison cell, has warnings for President Obama and the leaders of Mauritania this time.
A representative for Berkshire Hathaway announced the purchase to newsroom employees Tuesday.
