One of the fastest-growing Austin suburbs is being targeted by developers for a pair of large-scale projects, with one big ...

A proposal to turn the City of Austin into the 'District of Austin' — essentially under state control — failed this week in ...

Two Panhandle firefighters who lost their lives in the line of duty over the past two years will be honored at the State ...

Space Day Texas will be held on March 25 at the Texas Capitol, featuring exhibits from NASA and various aerospace companies.

A Texas House committee took the unusual step of unanimously voting down the bill to make Austin a district of the state and ...

The bill, authored by State Rep. Briscoe Cain, would have allowed the state to amend or repeal laws, ordinances and policies ...

For the third legislative session in a row, a proposal to strip Austin of its city status and place it under direct state ...

Many Texas prisons do not have air conditioning, and now a judge is siding with prisoners who say those conditions are unconstitutional. We look at why the judge did not order the state to immediately ...

House Bill 17 would ban some people, companies and government entities from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea from buying ...

Austin Water will be giving an over $1 billion upgrade to its Walnut Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant set to provide an extra 25 million gallons of water a day ...

A federal judge’s finding that extreme heat in Texas prisons is unconstitutional could lead to the state being ordered to ...

FOX 7 Austin's chief political reporter Rudy Koski and our panel of analysts discuss the big stories from This Week in Texas Politics.