Texas will discontinue the state-run curriculum system used by at least 875 of the state’s school districts amid complaints that it contained lesson...

The Texas Senate approved a bill Monday that would substantially reduce the number of standardized tests students need to take in order to graduate. T...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) has officially drawn a tea party-type challenger in the form of Iraq war veteran Erick Wyatt. A successful...

Fifteen state Senators will face voters in 2014, rather than serving a typical four-year term, following the once-a-decade re-election term drawing We...

Almost every newspaper has taken exception to Ted Cruz' assertion that we should abolish the Departments of Commerce, Energy and Education. There are good Texas reasons for this. Each of these benefits our state in important ways.

WASHINGTON -- Ted Cruz's Senate primary victory in Texas will provide a boost for tea party-backed, no-compromise conservatives in Congress. His all-...

Former Texas solicitor general Ted Cruz, fresh off his victory in the state's Senate GOP primary on Tuesday, was scheduled to appear on "Fox and Frien...

By Alexandra Duszak and Reity O'BrieniWatch NewsIn a Texas-sized spending battle that attracted more than $14 million in outside money, Ted Cruz ups...

By WILL WEISSERT, The ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN ANTONIO -- The question for voters in Tuesday's Texas runoff isn't whether a Republican will likely succ...

SAN ANTONIO — The two Republicans vying for the U.S. Senate nomination in Texas spent the final hours of their white-hot runoff race rallying th...

AUSTIN, Texas — Ted Cruz has grown accustomed to having his campaign speech interrupted by whoops and hollering, shrieks of "Go Ted!" and even a...

Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst (R), running against Tea Party favorite Ted Cruz in a heated U.S. Senate primary, is distancing himself from President B...

Tea Party favorite Ted Cruz's campaign accused primary opponent David Dewhurst of stonewalling efforts for more debates prior to the Texas runoff elec...

Last night, Ted Cruz, who is vying for the Republican nomination in the Senate race to determine who will take over Kay Bailey Hutchison's seat, compl...

By CHRIS TOMLINSON, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN, Texas -- The story line on the Republican Senate race in Texas is a now familiar one: A veteran po...

The Texas Senate GOP primary has now become a battle between Rick Perry and Sarah Palin....

Sarah Palin made an endorsement Thursday in the Texas Republican primary for U.S. Senate, backing the Tea Party-supported Ted Cruz, a former state sol...

The Texas Republican primary for U.S. Senate took an increasingly heated turn Thursday night, when Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz called opponent Lt...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Like many Texas Republicans, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has waited in line for higher office for nearly a decade. Now that Kay Bailey H...

An arrest was made Tuesday evening in an apparent firebombing outside the Fort Worth office of a Democratic Texas state senator. The Star-Telegra...

AUSTIN, Texas — College football analyst Craig James, who starred as a tailback at Southern Methodist University and with the New England Patrio...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas cannot proceed with elections under new redistricting maps without a trial, a Washington-based federal court ruled Tuesday, say...