When Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott first campaigned for his office 12 years ago, he promised a new era of government transparency. Abbott, who in July announced his bid for governor, believes he ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is directing state agencies to investigate potential child care funding fraud, following a national ...

Ken Paxton, attorney general for the state of Texas, has filed a legal response defending the state’s designation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign ...

Abbott said he believes the new statewide prosecutor is needed because some Texas district attorneys are not prosecuting criminals.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed Jason Boatright, a lawyer who once served as chief of the opinion division during Abbott's tenure as Texas Attorney General, to fill a vacant seat on Dallas' Fifth ...

Texas Attorney General Paxton's filing comes in response to the Council on American-Islamic Relations Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin chapters’ lawsuit against him and Gov. Greg Abbott last month.

Attorney General Greg Abbott asked the Texas Cancer Coalition, formerly known as the CPRIT Foundation, to suspend expenditures pending an inquiry into its finances and its re-formation last month.

This article was first published as a collaboration between ProPublica, The Texas Newsroom and The Texas Tribune as part of an initiative to report on how power is wielded in Texas. Months after ...

Paxton has filed a response seeking dismissal of a federal lawsuit challenging Abbott’s designation of CAIR under Texas law.

Seven candidates are running for the seat, including four Republicans​: Joan Huffman, Mayes Middleton, Aaron Reitz and Chip ...