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

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.

Cecile Erwin Young, Texas’ health commissioner who was appointed during one of the state’s earliest and worst waves of COVID-19 cases, is retiring. Her last day will be Jan. 2. “This agency impacts ...

Documents submitted to the city show a first phase of construction with a five-story hospital featuring an emergency department, surgery space, women’s services floor and 60 inpatient beds.

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 ...

Texas removed over 1 million children from the state’s Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) over the ...

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 ...

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.