Located about 90 minutes east of Houston and just 30 minutes from the Louisiana border is Beaumont, a former oil boomtown that still is mostly characterized by the petrochemical factories that loom ...

My God Votes says Christians have abdicated their civic duties. The Houston group has a plan to mobilize the church—starting ...

After years of opposition from rural Republicans and urban Democrats, the Texas Legislature passed a school voucher bill April 17.

including one that inflicted substantial damage on a small town that was still recovering from a March tornado. The storm also brought heavy rain to a broad swath of north-central Texas across ...

Senate Bill 22, filed by Houston Republican Sen. Joan Huffman, would direct the comptroller to deposit $500 million into a new Texas Moving Image Industry Incentive Fund every two years until 2035.

When prospectors finally struck oil near Beaumont at a place called Spindletop in1901, the town’s population grew from 9,000 ... Though the industry isn’t quite as large as Louisiana’s, southeast ...

All but one East Texas state representative voted to pass the controversial school vouchers program which would allow ...

This is the story of how a Spring native went from traveling around the West Coast to making some of the best barbecue in Southeast Texas from ... gas station in the small town of Kenefick.

While Imelda's flooding impacts may be worse than Harvey in some parts of Texas, Harvey was a $125-billion disaster, the nation's second-costliest tropical cyclone behind only Katrina, because of its ...

The City Council will consider rules aimed at protecting peacocks from trapping, while working to educate residents about the birds.