During hearings on Merrick Garland’s nomination to be President Joe Biden’s attorney general, the longtime federal appeals court judge told senators in 2021 that he ...

Charles Perry was moving from the Texas House of Representatives to the Senate. The Panhandle lawmaker had several priorities ...

Lawmakers will debate the future of public education, find ways to spend nearly $200 billion in tax money and wrangle over ...

State Rep. Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock) won the speaker's job Tuesday with the support of Democrats, who favored him over a ...

Hundreds of Texans converged upon the Texas State Capitol building for the first day of the 89th Legislature. There was plenty of excitement outside of the Capitol ...

Austin has been the capital of Texas since 1839, but did you know a brief ‘war’ nearly made Houston the seat of power in the Lone Star State?

Statewide forces will collide in Austin this week when the legislative session begins. Tuesday, lawmakers get sworn in and ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced that flags at the state Capitol in Austin and all state office buildings will be raised to ...

Originally, flags were ordered to be at half-staff for 30 days to honor the passing of former President Jimmy Carter.

The body of late US president Jimmy Carter was transferred in a grand and solemn military ceremony to the US Capitol, where ...

The Capitol has a more expansive policy for lying in state. Congressman Henry Clay, in 1852, was the first to lie in the ...