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In Van Zandt County, a fight over water rights, government transparency, and land ownership came to a head with a proposed ...

The ACLU found official misconduct, perjury, and predominantly white juries to be leading contributors to exonerated death ...

The Trump administration’s bans and airport detentions are derailing the academic dreams of students who carry out important ...

The New York firm Odyssey is now running the state’s lucrative voucher scheme with a little help from the governor’s friends.

Pending drug charges have been abandoned from the multi-agency April operation that supposedly targeted Tren de Aragua and ...

Each year, nearly 800,000 people pay a small admission fee to pass through the gates of the capital city’s spring-fed ...

Yale College and is an editor and staff writer for the Yale Daily News. He's from a farm in the small town of Wills Point in Van Zandt County.

On a June afternoon in McAllen in 1978, Diana Rivera, posing as a young pregnant woman, walked into the home of a local midwife. At Rivera’s side was a female friend, who was wearing a small, ...

Between mid-October and early November, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a pair of agreements that will authorize some state ...

The lower chamber approves key pieces—but only pieces—of the governor's pretrial incarceration agenda.

But outlays remain far above state funding prior to the Operation Lone Star era.