SENATE HAPPENINGSThis week, Senate standing committees remained active, conducting hearings and advancing legislation. The ...

Read more A bill aimed at lowering property taxes unanimously passed a Texas Senate committee Tuesday, clearing the way for ...

The marquee proposal would increase the amount of a home’s value exemption from school taxes to $140,000 from $100,000.

Proposals to cut property taxes by raising the Texas homestead exemption to $140,000 cleared a key hurdle when a bipartisan ...

Republicans in the Texas Senate introduced a bill that would require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools ...

A Texas Senate bill to raise the homestead exemption and provide relief to the state's property taxpayers quickly passed out of committee Tuesday.

Republican Texas lawmakers are renewing a push to infuse a greater religious influence in the state's public schools with a ...

The funding would be a nearly threefold increase from what the federal government is spending on both the Border Patrol and ...

A fire broke out at a transportation center next to the international airport in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday, injuring five people and sending a large tower of black smoke billowing over the city on ...

Travis Weber of Lincoln on the 94-foot putt he made to win a $75,000 Porsche Macan at a Nebraska men’s basketball game ...