Measles has returned to Texas, with two cases confirmed in Houston last week. No cases have been found in Central Texas, but measles is a worry for health officials, causing Austin Public Health and the Texas Department of State Health Services to issue alerts.

Texas reports a minor measles outbreak due to low vaccination rates. Health officials urge vaccinations to prevent the spread.

The president’s made-for-TV showmanship has been all over his first days in office, as he has sought to kick off the country’s largest mass deportation effort.

When Gov. Greg Abbott signed House Bill 12 into law in May 2023, Texas became the 41st state to extend postpartum Medicaid to 12 months. It was a victory years in the making, after several sessions of advocacy from health care providers, maternal health experts and moms themselves.

Advocates worry that rapidly shifting federal and state immigration initiatives will prompt more city police to funnel migrants without criminal records to federal agents.

The governor said the teams will help find, arrest and deport people who entered the country illegally and have active warrants for their arrests.

The unusual combination of snow and ice hit Central Texas and spread all the way to the Gulf Coast ... Ice stopped accumulating around 11 a.m. Tuesday, with accumulations of 0.05 to 0.15 inches. Austin woke up Tuesday morning to sleet and snow ...

Other Texas cities also ranked high for single-family building permits including Dallas, Austin, San Antonio and New Braunfels.

Bishop Joe S. Vásquez has been appointed the Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, replacing retiring Cardinal Daniel DiNardo. Pope Francis appointed Vásquez on Monday after he was appointed the fifth Bishop of Austin in 2010. Vásquez had been a priest for more than 40 years before being ordained a bishop in 2002.

A D.C.-based luxury charter bus company plans to expand its intercity services across Texas and the country over the next two years.

GOGO Charters, which began renting out charter buses in major U.S. cities in 2012, is planning daily bus routes between Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth as well Houston and San Antonio, with in-between stops in Katy and The Woodlands.

Texas state lawmakers have proposed a state budget that could potentially provide Houston ISD with millions in additional funds to increase teacher pay and address campus safety. Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston,