Texas Government News

Texas Emerging Technology Fund will provide a $3 million grant to create the Center for Cell and Organ Biotechnology.

Jimmy Kimmel is doing his show at the South by Southwest conference in Austin Texas.

The Texas Department of Transportation tunes up one of its greatest hits as it partners with top-notch Texas musicians for a brand-new rendition of 'Don't Mess with Texas'.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry brought Conservative Political Action Conference attendees to their feet at the stirring conclusion of his speech Friday.

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A 43-person planning group known as the Regional Transportation Council is scheduled Thursday to consider changing the speed limits during a regular meeting in Arlington.

Davis co-sponsored a bill last year ensuring that Texas law mirrored gender wage protections from the 2009 federal Lilly Ledbetter Act.

Fewer than 90,000 Texans bought health insurance in the new federally subsidized marketplace in the past month, leaving thousands uninsured with just weeks left before open enrollment ends March 31. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says Tuesday that 295,025 Texans have bought insurance on the marketplace since October 1, when ... (more)

The Health Insurance Marketplace is Open! If you need insurance or want to explore options, visit healthcare.gov .

Texas companies could exceed the national average for hiring new employees in the second quarter of 2014, according to a business survey.

The Texas Department of Transportation on Tuesday announced details of this month's effort called "DWI Hangovers Don't Go Away."

Grammy Award winning Tejano star Sunny Sauceda and country singer Kevin Fowler have joined the "Don't Mess With Texas" anti-litter campaign.

The Entertainment Software Association presented Gov. Rick Perry with an award of appreciation for the state's aggressive recruiting of video game companies.

Former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is easily the best-known conservative budget warrior in the U.S. House, but if he wants to be the new chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, he'll have to beat a Texan first.

East Texas school districts received ratings from the Financial Allocation Study for Texas to reflect both academic progress and spending at their school districts and campuses.

A Snook land owner says she's happy, but skeptical about the Texas Department of Transportation's decision to save a group of old Live Oak trees on her land.

It's not light reading by any means, but "Changing Texas: Implications of Addressing or Ignoring the Texas Challenge" covers an important subject - the future of Texas.

Jeff Brown of Houston was appointed as a justice of the Supreme Court of Texas for a term to expire at the next general election.The appointment was announced Thursday, Sept.

NAVARRO: But this last announcement about this new delay is that I think there's almost a numbing to all these delays and exceptions.

The number of people using bikes to extend their bus trips increased more than 47 percent jumping from 12,111 bike bus boardings in January 2013 to 17,859 in January this year, That's according to METRO figures which do not account for bikes taken onto light-rail trains.