Community Voices for Public Education organizes the effort, which includes a "mini-lobbying day" at the Texas Capitol.

Measles has returned to Texas, with two cases confirmed in Houston last week. No cases have been found in Central Texas, but measles is a worry for health officials, causing Austin Public Health and the Texas Department of State Health Services to issue alerts.

The U.S. Marshals Service announced in a Thursday news release that it had joined the Waller County Sheriff's Office in the search for an escaped inmate.

Texas reports a minor measles outbreak due to low vaccination rates. Health officials urge vaccinations to prevent the spread.

Two of the four cases are in Lubbock, which hasn’t seen a case in more than 20 years. Measles vaccination rates in Texas have fallen over the last four years.

The governor said the teams will help find, arrest and deport people who entered the country illegally and have active warrants for their arrests.

The president’s made-for-TV showmanship has been all over his first days in office, as he has sought to kick off the country’s largest mass deportation effort.

The unusual combination of snow and ice hit Central Texas and spread all the way to the Gulf Coast ... Ice stopped accumulating around 11 a.m. Tuesday, with accumulations of 0.05 to 0.15 inches. Austin woke up Tuesday morning to sleet and snow ...

Bishop Joe S. Vásquez has been appointed the Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, replacing retiring Cardinal Daniel DiNardo. Pope Francis appointed Vásquez on Monday after he was appointed the fifth Bishop of Austin in 2010. Vásquez had been a priest for more than 40 years before being ordained a bishop in 2002.

Other Texas cities also ranked high for single-family building permits including Dallas, Austin, San Antonio and New Braunfels.

GOGO Charters, which began renting out charter buses in major U.S. cities in 2012, is planning daily bus routes between Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth as well Houston and San Antonio, with in-between stops in Katy and The Woodlands.

The unusual combination of snow and ice hit Central Texas and spread all the way to ... with accumulations of 0.05 to 0.15 inches. Austin woke up Tuesday morning to sleet and snow accumulations ...