Greg Abbott

Businesses should look to incentivize staff to get a Covid vaccine, rather than mandate it, Wharton School professor Nancy Rothbard told CNBC on Thursday.

Texas child welfare officials said Wednesday they received three reports alleging abuse and neglect at a San Antonio coliseum that is holding more than 1,600 immigrant teenagers who crossed the southern border.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Monday that he wouldn’t throw the ceremonial first pitch as planned at the Texas Rangers’ home opener, citing Major League Baseball’s decision to move the MLB All-Star Game from Atlanta.

The ranks of big corporations now criticizing GOP efforts to restrict voting access are spreading to Texas.

The chair of the Texas Public Utility Commission resigned Tuesday, just 13 days after Gov. Greg Abbott appointed him to the post following last month’s energy crisis.

Wind power is now America’s top renewable source of electricity generation. And in the years to come, it’s poised to play a key role in the energy transition.

Texas’ top doctors warned Wednesday that Gov. Greg Abbott’s sudden decision to ditch the mask mandate and lift coronavirus restrictions could result in a new surge of COVID-19 infections and deaths, NBC News reports.

President Joe Biden condemned the news that both Texas and Mississippi were ending their mask mandates and reopening as officials try to contain new strains of the coronavirus. “We are on the cusp of fundamentally changing the nature of this disease… and the last thing we need is Neanderthal thinking that in the meantime, everything is fine, take off your...

After Texas and Mississippi announced they are lifting mask mandates this week, White House press secretary Jen Psaki implored Americans to stay vigilant and continue wearing face masks, saying, “We’re not asking people just to listen to the president. Of course we recommend that, but we’re asking people to listen to health experts, medical experts, the CDC, Dr. Fauci, to...

Biden’s announcement came as the White House works to increase production of Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot Covid vaccine.

On Thursday, managers of Texas’ power grid are expected to receive a lashing in the first public hearings about the crisis at the state Capitol — where the belief that less government is better is reflected in a part-time Legislature that meets just once every two years, and only for 140 days.

In a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday, DeAnn Walker resigned as the Chairman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas and is calling on others to come forward and accept their role in last month’s energy crisis.

The severe winter weather continues to wreak havoc on Texas.

In a call with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Thursday night, President Joe Biden pledged federal support for the state as the severe weather situation that left millions without power in freezing conditions continued

As frozen Texas reels under one of the worst electricity outages in U.S. history, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has blamed grid operators and iced-over wind turbines but gone easier on another culprit: an oil and gas industry that is the state’s dominant business and his biggest political contributor.

Power outages intensified in Louisiana and Mississippi as conditions from a historic winter storm curbed the region’s supply just as demand rose.

Millions were left without power in Texas as a historic storm crippled the state’s electric grid. Looking forward, experts outline some steps that can be taken.

Gov. Greg Abbott has dramatically reduced the number of places Texas voters can drop off their mail-in ballots in what he says is an effort to ensure poll security.

A mourning East Texas widow whose husband died of the COVID-19 late last month shared his obituary on social media where she blamed his death on a lack of response from President Donald Trump, Gov. Greg Abbott and the “selfish people” who refused to wear a mask.

Hundreds of people lined up outside a church in Houston to pay respects to George Floyd. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who also paid his respects, said “George Floyd is going to change the arc of the future of the United States.”