Greg Abbott

Dallas-Fort Worth residents turned out in force Saturday for local "No Kings" protests against President Donald Trump's policies, including anti-immigration raids.

The Texas governor signed a $50 million bill into law on Wednesday to help bring ibogaine through FDA-approved clinical trials for opioid use disorders and other neurological and mental health conditions. Advocates said the legislation is the largest state-funded psychedelic research initiative in history.

Members of the Texas National Guard have been deployed to San Antonio as well-publicized protests will continue in the city through the weekend.

While protests in Houston, San Antonio and Dallas remained mostly peaceful, tensions flared in Austin Monday evening.

Bills touted as 'anti-squatter' reforms were originally written to make it easier to evict renters. But legislators significantly scaled back these provisions in a bill poised to become law.

State policy makers passed two major education-related bills this legislative session, one establishing a school voucher-like program and another allocating more than $8 billion for public school funding.

Texas' Senate Bill 13 empowers school boards to decide which books are permitted in their school libraries. It also allows parents to submit a list of books their children are prohibited from checking out.

House Bill 2 includes $4.2 billion for pay raises and nearly $2 billion to overhaul special education.

A group of small business owners, veterans and farmers lugged 25 cardboard boxes filled to the brim with petitions against Senate Bill 3 to the governor's office on Monday.

Gov. Greg Abbott called all state workers back to the office this spring. Now, state lawmakers are sending this bill to his desk.

One of the most highly debated bills in Texas' 2025 legislative session has passed both chambers and heads to Gov. Greg Abbott for his signature. House Bill 2 provides $8.5 billion for the state's public school system.

The project, known as EPIC City, has yet to break ground, but members of this Muslim community feel stereotyped.