Twenty-three-year-old Alison Pickering knew to watch out for peanuts. It was a discovery her family made the day she came ...

It’s the first concrete sign that lawmakers plan to tackle the ballot secrecy issue since an investigation by Votebeat and ...

Modeled after the state’s $6B cancer research fund, the dementia fund could pump hundreds of millions of dollars into Texas ...

Defense companies have promoted drones as a possible solution for stopping or mitigating school shootings, though school ...

A recently-filed bill in the Texas Legislature looks to crack down on the increase in false threats against schools.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is confident that school choice legislation will pass during the next legislative session, but ...

In the last few years, our schools have faced a disturbing rise in hoax threats, including false reports of school shootings ...

The commission hasn't regulated the railways in decades. Instead, it oversees the state’s vast oil and gas industry.

The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

The challenge of securing schools comes amid a troubling trend of increased violence in U.S. educational institutions.

Buckingham described the plot as "essentially farmland," and "easy to build on." Her office did not specify how much the ...

Only Republican members of the education board voted for it. All Democratic members and three Republicans opposed it.