Five of the seven Texas House GOP runoffs were won by candidates who had support from two groups aligned with retiring House Speaker Joe Straus and other establishment Republicans.

Democrat Lupe Valdez will face off against Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in the fall. Two incumbents in the Texas House lost their runoffs. And Democrats had their worst runoff turnout in almost a century.

Abbott will instead give away a $250 gift certificate.

Meet the Associated Republicans of Texas, a moderate PAC spending millions to combat hard-line conservative groups in the 2018 elections.

A suburb in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex is reportedly set to get the nation's first self-driving car service.

Gov. Greg Abbott's decision in 2015 to ask the Texas State Guard to monitor a federal military exercise prompted significant criticism. A former CIA director said Wednesday that the move emboldened Russians to next target elections.

The Sherman Republican will step down April 30. 

Bush has been hospitalized due to an infection that spread to his blood, a spokesperson said Monday. 

The bill would hold government agencies accountable for failing to properly document individuals' criminal histories in the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

As polls opened in the Texas primaries on Tuesday, The Texas Tribune laid out seven key questions for election night. Now that the smoke is clearing, here are the answers.

Of the three Republican incumbents targeted by Gov. Greg Abbott in this year's primaries, two won victories Tuesday night. Several other open-seat races are headed to runoffs May 22.

After helping several Republicans get elected to the Texas Legislature years ago, two prominent conservative groups are working to unseat them. Next week's GOP primary could test how much sway those groups still hold.  

We wanted to know: Should the minimum age for buying semiautomatic rifles rise from 18 to 21? Should large-capacity magazines be banned? Here's how they answered. 

Mike Feinberg, co-founder of the charter school network KIPP, has been fired over sexual misconduct allegations. 

A year after the Texas Freedom Caucus first launched, the bloc of hardline conservatives in the Texas House is optimistic it will broaden its membership before state lawmakers head back to Austin in 2019.