Texas safety

This brings the West Texas outbreak to 663 cases since its inception in late January.

Texas lawmakers advanced a bill to change the language in the state's abortion laws in an effort to clarify when doctors are allowed to perform an abortion during a medical emergency. The bill, which passed unanimously in the Texas Senate on Tuesday, is the first time Republican lawmakers have sought to amend the state's ban since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022.

This brings the West Texas outbreak to more than 600 cases since the outbreak began in late January.

Billboard ads luring Texas providers to the north have been placed in Houston and Dallas.

State lawmakers and criminal justice experts offer some insight into what drives the lawmaking process in Texas and whether police chases – a phenomenon that killed nearly 100 people in Texas in 2022 – will ever be regulated in the law.

The Texas outbreak is nearing 600 cases since January.

Children at Risk aims to address the continued need for access to high-quality child care amid a rise in child care deserts.

Gun related deaths have risen steadily statewide. But this session, lawmakers have proposed bills that could make it easier to access firearms.

Fifty-eight patients have been hospitalized since the outbreak began in late January.

The measles outbreak in West Texas didn't happen just by chance. Health officials say the easily preventable disease has ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine programs.