Explore Black history and culture at Houston landmarks such as Freedmen’s Town, the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum and ...

(Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer) AUSTIN – The election of Rep. Dustin Burrows as Texas House speaker with help from Democrats has many Republicans crying foul. Republican grassroots ...

who was fatally shot while trying to serve an arrest warrant, to arrive at the Harris County Forensic Science Center on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, in Houston. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP) ...

HOUSTON (AP) — A man fatally shot a Texas sheriff’s deputy Wednesday at a shopping plaza in Houston and then evaded officers for hours before shooting a K-9 that helped find him hiding under ...

Lubbock Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows clinched the Texas House speakership Tuesday in the culmination of an unusually long and unusually public mudfight for the role. As expected ...

Texas Sheriff's Deputy Killed, Suspect Fatally Shot After Intensive Search in Houston HOUSTON (AP) — A man fatally shot a Texas sheriff's deputy Wednesday at a shopping plaza in Houston and then ...

Some supporters of Donald Trump's Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement reacted with fury on Tuesday after Texas Republican Dustin Burrows was elected as speaker of the state's house thanks to ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — With the House floor as a backdrop inside of the Texas Capitol, State Rep. Venton Jones (D-Dallas) proposed to the first person he told he was going to run for office.

After new members were sworn in, the Texas House was tasked with selecting its new speaker. Republican Dustin Burrows of Lubbock ultimately won the speaker’s gavel after two rounds of voting.

Every legislative session, the 150-member Texas House of Representatives votes on which of them will take on the role of House speaker. It’s not just a critical role in the statehouse – it’s ...

Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, addresses the Texas House as the new speaker during ... including three new senators — Houston Democrat Molly Cook, Corpus Christi Republican Adam Hinojosa and Denton ...

Texas A&M University pulled the brakes on an upcoming conference trip after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott discovered that only applicants of a particular race could attend. On Monday, conservative ...