Seven weeks after massive flooding killed 137 people in the Texas Hill Country, lawmakers have begun passing the first bills to try to prevent future tragedies — with measures to require more training ...

Federal funding cuts to immunization efforts and a new law that allows exemption forms to be downloaded, instead of mailed, ...

“The youth camps don’t like regulation,” state Rep. Vikki Goodwin told The Texas Tribune when asked about concessions she had to make to certain camps on a 2023 safety bill.

For example, HB 2 increased state funding for Bastrop's safety needs from $364,000 to $786,000, but the 13,000-student district spends about $3 million annually, White said.

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo wants voters to approve a tax increase to extend the county’s efforts to improve the region’s child care landscape, work that began following the COVID-19 ...

Harris County leader wants voters to extend child care efforts as pandemic funding runs out The debate over whether to ask voters to cover the program comes as the nation’s third-largest county ...