On the morning of July 4, the Guadalupe River in Kerr County overflowed as camp attendees slept in their cabins.

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily reinstated Texas’s congressional map that adds up to five GOP pickup opportunities until the high court rules on the state’s emergency appeal.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said California's redistricting would counter Texas' rare mid-decade redistricting push. That doesn't mean California is turning back after a federal court in Texas blocked the state ...

(The Texas Tribune) — Texas officials are requiring youth camps to have weather alert systems, mandated emergency preparedness plans, and various communication methods to help children and their ...

Texas Sen. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, right, huddles with other democrat senators and staff members to fight against a bill on a redrawn U.S. congressional map during a special session in the Senate ...

Camp Mystic haunts us. What is to be done in the aftermath of the tragic loss of young lives? Texas A&M’s response to the Aggie Bonfire offers a model. I say this as someone who’s familiar with the ...

The U.S. redistricting war took a turn Tuesday when a Texas court invalidated that state’s new congressional map, ruling it an illegal racial gerrymander. The mid-decade redistricting trend began in ...

A panel of federal judges in Texas on Tuesday blocked the state’s new GOP-favored House map from being used ahead of the 2026 midterms by declaring it a likely racial gerrymander, dealing a blow to ...

New episodes of State of Texas are on KXAN or the KXAN+ app every Sunday at 8:30 a.m. Don’t want to wait? Scroll down to continue watching this week’s segments now. AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Four months have ...

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