AUSTIN — Newly elected Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, struck a conciliatory tone in his victory speech after ...

There is a new speaker of the Texas House. That was the top issue as the 89th session of the Texas Legislature began.

Texas A&M University canceled a trip to a Chicago conference on Tuesday after an application was discovered to have excluded White and Asian colleagues.

Before the Texas’s 89th Legislature began Tuesday, state representatives and senators had already filed over 2,300 bills, ...

The speaker election ends a multi-month fight within the Texas Republican Party that began last legislative session.

The eighty-ninth Texas state legislative session will begin as state representatives and senators decide on future laws over ...

The speaker election ends a multi-month fight within the Texas Republican Party that began last legislative session.

Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, was elected speaker of the Texas House on Tuesday, concluding a bitter and intense power ...

David Cook of Mansfield and Rep. Dustin Burrows of Lubbock. Cook has support from some top Texas Republicans, including ...

Currently, the Texas House consists of 150 members. In January, the House will be made up of 88 Republicans and 62 Democrats. The new speaker will need at least 76 votes. At the beginning of each ...

As most state legislatures convene new sessions, the historic expansion of school choice in the U.S. that has taken place in ...

Gov. Greg Abbott is threatening to force out Texas A&M University President Mark Welsh III over the university's apparent ...