Senators mingle as the Texas Senate is in recess during the second day of the 89th regular session at the Texas State Capitol in Austin on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer ...

A Fort Worth firefighter severely burned in the line of duty is speaking out after his family, the public and politicians said the workers' compensation system failed him, denying him of much needed ...

TEXAS, USA — Hundreds of new laws passed by the Texas Legislature this year will take effect on Sept. 1, 2025. From tougher penalties for human trafficking to new rules in schools and changes on the ...

For $8 an hour, B.O., a Kenyan immigrant who asked the Texas Observer to use only her initials for fear of workplace retaliation, once cared for six elderly patients in a Houston group home for as ...