Texas' first governor to use a wheelchair will move into a mansion built 134 years before ADA accessibility requirements. But thanks to an arsonist’s Molotov cocktail, the home needs only minor fixes.

In city council runoff elections now underway in Austin, some voters will have the chance to weigh in on a sibling rivalry, while others will be asked to choose sides in a fight over religion and a theory about 9/11.

As shrubs and seedlings take hold in the scorched Bastrop State Park, park officials face a new quandary: An abundance of whitetail deer is threatening the new growth. 

In this week's Q&A, we interview Matt Bowers of the sport management program at UT-Austin.

The Texas Association of Business' 2015 agenda calls for the Legislature to end diversions of state gas taxes from road funding and to dedicate half of motor vehicle sales taxes to road construction and maintenance. 

In this week's Q&A, we interview newly elected State Board of Education District 13 representative Erika Beltran.

Twenty-nine Texans who weren't in the state Legislature last session will take their seats as new members of the Texas House and Senate in January. All but three of them are Republicans. Explore our list of fresh faces. 

In this week's Q&A, we interview Rebecca Callahan, researcher and associate professor of education at the University of Texas at Austin.

It would take more than 10 days to watch all the ad spots on broadcast television that the campaign of Greg Abbott, the Republican candidate for Texas governor, has bought from July to Election Day.

Texas House Speaker Joe Straus is straying from the Republican crowd on the what to do with the Texas Enterprise Fund.

Democratic state Rep. Celia Israel and Republican Mike VanDeWalle are in a rematch for the state House less than a year after their last face-off.  

For as many as 40,000 low-income Austin households being squeezed by high rents in a booming city, Wednesday offers the barest glimmer of hope.

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst's former adviser Kenneth "Buddy" Barfield pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges of wire fraud, making a false tax return and embezzlement of funds contributed to a federal candidate.

In his latest web ad, Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott touts the Rio Grande Valley's potential for growth and improvement.

In this week's Q&A, we interview Michael Hooten, superintendent of Trinity Environmental Academy.