In this week's Q&A, we interview Baker Harrell, the CEO of It’s Time Texas, a nonprofit organization devoted to studying and promoting health in Texas.

An Austin-based Democratic pollster makes the argument that with the GOP presidential nominee's unpopularity, Texas Democrats have a chance to be competitive in more races.

Robert Lynn Pruett, convicted in the 1999 stabbing death of a state correctional officer, has won another stay of execution from a Court of Criminal Appeals judge. His lethal injection was set for August 23.

Voters who have yet to make up their minds give different reasons for not making a final decision between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

Key meetings and events over the coming weeks.

In this week's Q&A, we interview Paul Choules, the president of the Texas Desalination Association.

In this week's Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights The Great Derangement.

The main entrance to the Texas Capitol is open and bustling again, a few weeks after the state Department of Public Safety temporarily closed it citing security concerns.

In a rebuke of a private firm’s plans to build a bullet train between Houston and Dallas, local officials in rural southeastern Texas moved Tuesday to restrict high-speed rail development in their corner part of the state.

With a news report spotlighting a "quiet Republican campaign" to find a challenger to Ted Cruz, the senator focuses on meeting with constituents.

The state's land commissioner changes his tune on Donald Trump, now urges his fellow Texas Republicans to back the man that beat his father in the race for the nomination.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said he is working with GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign to help lead an agriculture team.

A hearing Thursday on a pending policy requiring the burial or cremation of fetal remains drew witnesses from all sides of the abortion debate.

Laura Thompson is the first independent to serve in the Texas Legislature in more than a half-century, even though she won't be there long. The last was Howard Green, the grandfather of actor Ethan Hawke.

Witnesses at a Senate Education hearing on Wednesday agree the current system of funding schools doesn't work but the hard part is finding a replacement.

Opponents of a proposed state ballot initiative to increase the cap on the number of charter schools operating within Massachusetts are rallying behind two Boston city councilors.

In this week’s Q&A, we interview John Bartholomew, the director of the University of Texas at Austin’s Exercise and Sport Psychology Lab.

Research has found that students actually accept and retain more knowledge when their teachers allow them to explore their own misconceptions.

In this week's Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Born Bright.

While nonprofits, philanthropists and reformers flock to cities like New York, New Orleans and Memphis, Detroit lacks substantive efforts toward educational reform.