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Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday that Texas will build a border wall along the state’s boundary with Mexico — but provided no details on where or when.

An unidentified person was shot as they sat in their car at an Angleton intersection and taken to the hospital by helicopter Thursday evening. 

AUSTIN — Texas families who relied on the Pandemic EBT card, which previously provided a one-time benefit of $285 for students receiving free and reduced-price meals, can apply for another round of food aid for the 2021-22 school year.

AUSTIN — With only a few hours until the final deadline for passing Senate bills in the Texas House, Democrats were pulling out all the stops Tuesday to keep the body from considering GOP-backed legislation they oppose.

The legislative session that ends in a week is just the first chapter for this batch of state lawmakers; the list of things to do when they come back later this year is growing.

AUSTIN — In March 2019, a massive chemical fire broke out after a leak at a chemical tank farm in Deer Park spread to almost a dozen other tanks.

AUSTIN — The Texas Legislature is on the verge of approving a new law that would require some public schools and universities to display the phrase “In God We Trust” in prominent places inside all campus buildings.

AUSTIN — The Texas House and Senate reached a compromise on a bill to allow the permitless carrying of handguns, the top negotiators said Friday, moving it even closer to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk for a likely signature.

Whether or not you’re ready to get back to normal, your governor is.

With time dwindling on the legislative session, the Texas House is breaking until Sunday in an attempt to send the Senate a clear message: Pass our priority bills or see your own legislation die slowly in our chamber.

HUNTSVILLE — For the first time in the modern death penalty era, Texas did not let the media witness an execution.

Gov. Greg Abbott announced Tuesday public schools can no longer require masks on their campuses starting June 5. 

AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a bill into law that prohibits Texas cities from banning natural gas as a fuel source for new construction and utility services.

AUSTIN — The $300-per-week federal unemployment assistance Congress approved earlier this year will stop flowing to jobless Texans next month after Gov. Greg Abbott said Monday the state is opting out of the benefit.

Texas lawmakers’ attempts to reform how — and whether — criminal defendants get out of jail while awaiting trial is likely headed for a closed-door showdown over the different legislative approaches the House and Senate each devised.

AUSTIN — Legislation that would ban abortions after as early as six weeks — before many women know they are pregnant — and let virtually any private citizen sue abortion providers and others was given final approval by lawmakers Thursday and is headed to Gov. Greg Abbott, who has signaled he…

AUSTIN — With just over two weeks remaining in the legislative session, the governor’s office is getting the first key bill that Texas House and Senate lawmakers have passed in response to February’s widespread power outages.

Three more lives have been claimed by COVID-19, according to the numbers released by Brazoria County officials Wednesday.

AUSTIN — Alcohol to go is now law in Texas after Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday signed a bill to permanently allow Texans to include alcohol in take-out orders from restaurants, achieving a shared goal of Abbott and restaurateurs.

AUSTIN — The Texas House on Wednesday rejected changes the Senate made to a Republican-backed proposal to allow Texans to carry handguns without a license, sending the bill behind closed doors for further negotiations.

ANGLETON — COVID-19 has been largely eradicated in local prisons with only one inmate actively battling the respiratory virus, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Within days of the first COVID-19 vaccines going to people aged 12-15 years old — and the end of the traditional school year — infection numbers in Southern Brazoria County school districts are under double-digits.

Weekly COVID-19 vaccine allocations by the Texas Department of State Health Services are now a thing of the past.

AUSTIN — The Republican-led effort to allow Texans to carry handguns without any kind of license cleared what is likely its biggest remaining hurdle in the Capitol on Wednesday when the Texas Senate moved in a nail-biter vote to bring the measure to the floor and then gave it preliminary approval.

AUSTIN — Top state leaders announced Wednesday they are releasing $11.2 billion out of nearly $18 billion available in federal pandemic relief funding that has been dedicated for the state’s public schools.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an attempt by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to challenge a California ban on state-funded travel to states with discriminatory laws — a list Texas landed on in 2017 after the Legislature approved a religious-refusal law for adoptions in the state.