Several Texas state House Democrats plan to rip up the written agreements that allowed them to leave the chamber with a ...

Texas Republicans forced Democrats to sign a slip authorizing a police officer to surveil them until Wednesday, when the ...

Republicans in the Texas House forced returning Democrats to around-the-clock surveillance by state Department of Public ...

Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier from Fort Worth returned to the Texas Capitol on Monday but says she remains locked ...

A Texas man who fired shots at teenagers attempting a "ding-dong-ditch" prank at his house in July now faces three felony ...

A state lawmaker has refused to leave the Texas Capitol as Republicans use police to prevent Democrats from fleeing the state ...

A Democratic state lawmaker who fled Texas in protest of a GOP redistricting effort is asking a court to let her exit the Capitol, after she was told she needs a police escort to leave the building.

Police across Texas have ramped up patrols through Sept. 1, with law enforcement on the lookout for impaired drivers.

House Speaker Dustin Burrows said Monday that Democrats who previously left the state could not leave the chamber unless they agreed to having a DPS escort. Collier refused one and must remain in the ...

Generations of Texas politicians have sat, voted and debated in the cushioned leather chairs on the floor of the state’s ...