Rick Perry stars in an ad out Wednesday that coincides with his swing across the Northeast to lure jobs to Texas.

The same day the U.S. House voted to ban abortion at 20 weeks, Republicans in the Texas Senate at least temporarily abandoned a similar proposal and instead approved a bill to tighten regulations on clinics, doctors and abortion-inducing drugs.

The Senate late Tuesday approved sweeping new abortion restrictions, though the bill’s author abandoned a provision that would ban the procedure after 20 weeks.

Economic growth remains slow by historical standards, and millions of Americans still are looking for work. But the pollution business is booming in Houston.

The mayors of Dallas and Fort Worth have called a competitive truce to put out a welcome mat to the world.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has renewed a drought emergency in more than 200 counties throughout the state, authorizing "all necessary measures" be implemented to aid response efforts.

Sweeping immigration legislation moving toward a vote in the Senate would boost the economy and reduce federal deficits, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday, at the same time it would bestow legal status on an estimated 8 million immigrants living in the United States unlawfully.

Sweeping immigration legislation moving toward a vote in the Senate would boost the economy and reduce federal deficits, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday, at the same time it would bestow legal status on an estimated 8 million immigrants living in the United States unlawfully.

Since taking office in January, Senator Ted Cruz has earned a reputation for being one of the most unapologetically outspoken lawmakers on Capitol Hill. So much so, perhaps, that when it comes to the Gang of Eight’s immigration-reform bill, of which Cruz has been one of the strongest Republican critics, it might seem like he’s been taking it easy.

A new chapter in the history of El Paso's public transportation system will be written this week.

The Texas Senate on Tuesday tentatively approved legislation directing some oil and gas taxes to highway funding, but the unanimous voice vote doesn’t necessarily mean that Senate Joint Resolution 2 is on its way to passage.

The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved the most restrictive ban on abortion considered by Congress in a decade, a largely symbolic vote that laid bare the deep ideological differences between Democrats and Republicans.

Former Rep. Ron Paul isn’t buying that NSA surveillance of private American citizens is necessary or has prevented as many terrorism plots as officials claim it has, as was unveiled by hearings today.

A Houston man is accused of threatening to kidnap, murder and burn U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and his father and also to "blow up" the sun if he wasn't paid $3 million.

Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg made her first public comments on Tuesday about Gov. Rick Perry’s move Friday to cut about $3.7 million in annual funding to her office.

Blue Mound officials have been defeated for now in their attempt to take over a privately owned water system because Gov. Rick Perry vetoed legislation that would allow them to take control of the utility.

Thursday night at the Capitol Hill Club, Representative Ted Poe had a scary choking incident and was thankfully aided by a doctor-turned-GOP-aide, Nick Muzin, who may have saved his life.

Only 26 of the 150 lawmakers in the lower chamber declined their per diem payments over the last two weeks when the full House stood silent, according to records obtained by the Houston Chronicle / San Antonio Express-News.

The abortion wars return to Congress in a big way with House legislation to ban almost all abortions after a fetus reaches the age of 20 weeks.

The future of an Applebee's restaurant remains uncertain as residents debate extending the hours liquor may be sold.

Measuring assimilation properly requires following the same immigrants over generations. And the good news is that longitudinal studies that take this approach show that Latino immigrants have made gains similar to other groups who preceded them.

Mexico has a tremendous opportunity available to grow the average income, create hundreds of thousands of jobs and accelerate the building of a middle class — and all that is required is removing the current barrier to capital investment.

A Houston Democrat signaled Monday that he and fellow Democrats would try to restore state funding to the Public Integrity Unit that was stripped by Republican Gov. Rick Perry, but it’s sure to be an uphill effort.

Since then, however, an alarming number of those patients have died. There are 14 in all, almost double what’s normal for a two-month period at the nursing home, administrator Rose Ann Morris said.

As the special session headed toward its final week, the Texas House returned to the Capitol on Monday to finish its work on redistricting maps, but lawmakers were unable to stick to the plan to vote a trio of maps out of committee.