The 16-year-old tore down the center of the main arena’s dirt floor on her horse and began firing her gun at the white balloons that poked out of the orange cones.

When the miserable heat of August broke records and the state collectively ratcheted down its thermostat, placing unprecedented demands on the electricity grid, wind farms on the Texas coast seemed determined to prove their worth.

The national health care debate continues, but Nueces County doesn’t have the luxury of debating its policy much longer.

The people of San Antonio, a city that styles itself Military City, U.S.A., won’t get a better opportunity to salute still-surviving World War II veterans than this week when thousands of veterans gather downtown for …

For decades this city in far West Texas defied the look of most desert communities, with neighborhoods boasting lush, green lawns and residents freely running their sprinklers.

Along with making deep cuts in the state’s budget, Texas lawmakers this year passed bills cracking down on drunken drivers and making it more difficult for the government to take private property.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Friday the U.S. economy needed more stimulus to get it moving, putting in a plug for government measures shortly before the White House unveils new proposals to boost …

British Tornado jets fired cruise missiles overnight at a headquarters in deposed Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on Friday.

This is a storm that poses an extraordinary threat and will increasingly affect the eastern Mid-Atlantic and then eastern New York and New England over the next 24 to 36 hours.

David Cameron is at risk of becoming embroiled in an official parliamentary investigation after it emerged yesterday that Andy Coulson failed to tell MPs that News International was continuing to pay him after he left …