Blayre Peña, seeking to unseat state Rep. Caroline Harris Davila, is focused on public schools needing more funding and ...

Voters in Texas' 18th District have had little break in a series of elections as the result of the Republican-controlled state Legislature's redrawing of congressional districts last year.

It is easy to encourage voters to return incumbent Jeff Leach to an eighth two-year term as the representative for Texas ...

Pooja Sethi's experience navigating state policy gives West Travis residents a pragmatic voice on urgent local issues, the Statesman Editorial Board writes.

DALLAS — Democrat Taylor Rehmet may never get the chance to cast a vote from his new seat in the Texas state Senate.

Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) is blaming his party’s loss in Saturday’s special election for a Texas state Senate seat on a ...

Christian Menefee won the special election for an open House seat in the Houston area ...

Crockett, 44, a former public defender and civil-rights attorney, served two years in the Texas House before winning her ...

Menefee will replace the late Rep. Sylvester Turner, a former Houston mayor, who died in March 2025. The seat representing ...

Smith County ESD 2 firefighters responded to two separate incidents of cars crashing into East Texas homes Monday morning.

The Associated Press projected that Menefee beat Amanda Edwards, an attorney and former member of the Houston City Council, ...

DALLAS — Even as political shockwaves continue to reverberate across the country following the surprise Democratic victory in the special election for state Senate District 9 (SD 9), the leader of ...