The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) requires all beneficiaries to renew their eligibility periodically, a ...

Stephanie Muth, the former commissioner of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, has been named Texas’ next ...

Governor Abbott appoints Stephanie Muth as the new Executive Commissioner for Texas Health and Human Services, starting ...

Texas landowners have until January to apply for participation in the $3.2 million state reforestation initiative.

Lawmakers passed a number of bills to "Make Texas Healthy Again." They also made it easier for Texans to avoid vaccines.

In March, geese returned to the pond in the middle of campus, 50 of them, grown birds and later their goslings, splashing in ...

Disenrollment is happening nationwide.

A Texas law that takes effect Thursday places new restrictions on which restrooms transgender people can use in certain government-owned buildings and schools. Republicans worked for more than ...

By Céline Gounder, KFF Health News Rates of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, are surging in Texas, Florida, California, Oregon, and other states and localities across the country. The ...

Texas officials have officially adopted rules further expanding the state’s medical marijuana program, allowing doctors to ...

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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick blasted a lawsuit attempting to block the dementia research fund approved by nearly 70% of Texas voters.