Texas is one of the few states that were once independent countries, and is quite proud of that. But just 16 years after ...

East Texas State Representative Cole Hefner, R-Mount Pleasant, has been appointed to serve as the Chair of the Texas House ...

While Texas basketball plays SEC foes Kentucky (men) and LSU (women), football is sending 14 Longhorns to the NFL scouting ...

Texas leaders had long lamented that the state lagged far behind others in research schools with only three R1 universities ...

A promise to make Texas the film capital of the world has left local creatives raring to cash in — and preparing for a ...

Whether you're craving pizza, pasta, a sandwich or dessert, you can get heart-shaped food this Valentine's Day! Here are the ...

Beyond its flagship Knoxville campus, the University of Tennessee is addressing nursing shortages, cancer detection, opioid ...

Russells’ death on Jan. 6 is part of an escalating trend and comes at a time when advocates are again beseeching lawmakers to broaden protections for domestic violence survivors. Advocates see a ...

Many of the top assignments went to allies of new House Speaker Dustin Burrows. But a few also went to his critics.

Elon Musk's company SpaceX is one step closer to making Starbase, Texas an official town. Starbase is home of SpaceX's ...

Texas is scheduled to execute a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club, and ...

More than a third of Trump's Cabinet nominees are Catholic. Three — Sean Duffy, Marco Rubio and John Ratcliffe — have already ...