Texas

Why was Houston, Texas, just named the "healthiest housing market for 2013?" Realtor Thai Klam helps explain.

Texas Governor Rick Perry visits California to attract companies away from the Golden State with promises of low taxes and fewer regulations.

In one Texas county, the new library will look more like an Apple store than a Barnes & Noble.

The trial begins this week. Cash-starved school districts are arguing that big budget cuts violate the state constitution's guarantee of fair and adequate education for all its citizens.

This week Mexican marines took out the leader of one of Mexico's most powerful drug gangs, the Zetas. There's some hope this might disrupt their reign of terror there and open up cross-border business and trade.

An oil well may seem pretty useless when the light sweet crude stops flowing. In Texas, researchers and entrepreneurs see a chance to recycle old wells and create geothermal power.

Tapping the Ogallala Aquifer decades ago turned the Panhandle into fertile farmland. Drought is reviving concern that water in the ground, like oil, eventually runs out.

Super PAC runs ad linking tea party favorite Cruz to criminal

It's been almost two weeks since the Supreme Court ruled President Obama's health care overhaul constitutional. Today Texas Governor Rick Perry has officially announced his plans to opt out of the Medicaid expansion and insurance exchanges included in the Affordable Care Act.

Several small towns in Texas are growing because of new oil and gas drilling. But can the boom last?