Austin -- On Texas Independence Day (March 2), Sen. Robert Nichols (R-Jacksonville) filed a resolution calling for an end to federal mandates violating states' rights. The...

Most all of Texas is gripped in some degree of drought condition, but the worst targets the heart of the state, spanning a region from Temple to Victoria and Huntsville to...

AUSTIN - Amid rising consumer concern about food safety, Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples announced today that the Texas Department of Agriculture awarded $92,000 for...

AUSTIN-Texas Railroad Commissioners have selected John Tintera as the new executive director for the state's top energy regulatory agency. The Railroad Commission...

AUSTIN shy;- The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) recovered more than $1.4 million in restitution in Calendar Year 2008 as a result of statewide criminal prosecutions for...

PLAN TO ATTEND ANNUAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION CONFERENCE IN APRIL AUSTIN, Texas -Make plans to explore the real places that tell the real stories of Texas by...

(Austin) Members of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee heard testimony Tuesday relating to a bill aimed at improving oversight and securing patients' rights at...

Beginning April 1, 2009, breeding bulls entering Texas from any other state must be either 24 months of age or younger and certified as a virgin, or be tested negative for...

AUSTIN-The Texas Railroad Commission, the state's chief energy agency, has received an additional $12 million from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The grant...

(AUSTIN) - The annual Unclaimed Property List in next Sunday's newspapers will bring good news to about 130,000 Texans - they have money waiting to be claimed. ...

(Austin) Texas is fairing better than the rest of the country when it comes to home prices and foreclosure rates, according to testimony offered at Wednesday's Senate...

The Texas Department of State Health Services today announced that it is taking over the recall of products shipped from Peanut Corporation of America's Plainview plant...

JANUARY PERMITS TO DRILL The Commission issued a total of 1,264 original drilling permits in January 2009 compared to 1,760 in January 2008. The January total...

AUSTIN - The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) announced today a $25 increase to weekly unemployment benefits for individuals currently receiving payments. The increase was...

(Austin) Last session's prison and parole reforms have been successful in slowing the growth of Texas prison populations, according to testimony offered before the Senate...