After a roughly 20-minute hearing, Judge Austin Reeve Jackson rejected arguments by Roberson's attorney that his execution should be further delayed because of a pending appeal to the state's highest ...

State Rep. Cody Harris, who chairs the Committee on Natural Resources, says he is hoping to get the groundwater conversation ...

A school district in east Texas says it can no longer run its afterschool program due to federal funding cuts.

A judge has set a new execution date for a Texas man who had been set last year to become the first person in the U.S. to be put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby ...

Every day in 2023, Texas welcomed 1,542 new residents. With the population expected to grow by millions in the coming decades ...

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Two real estate groups have filed permit requests to drill over 40 wells, pulling an estimated 10 to 15 billion gallons of ...

Continuing the fight against Red Town Ranch holdings' production permit for 21 high-capacity groundwater wells in Anderson ...

A new report from Stacker using data from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information lists five east Texas ...

The child's grandparents found videos showing Toon aggressively push the child's head and neck into her bed and throw her ...