A Texas House Democrat was confined in the Capitol overnight after she refused a police escort that Republican leaders imposed on lawmakers who participated in a two-week walkout over a GOP mid-decade ...

Nicole Collier spent two nights inside the Texas Capitol after she was barred from leaving the building over her refusal to ...

The Texas House of Representatives will gavel back into session at 10 a.m. Wednesday with the controversial proposal ...

For every 100,000 Louisianians, 406 were the victim of a violent crime and 1,758 were the victim of a property crime. But ...

Texas State Representative Nicole Collier was in a bathroom when law enforcement reportedly told her to leave.

The first domino in a growing national redistricting battle is likely to fall Wednesday as the Republican-controlled Texas legislature is expected to pass a new congressional map creating five new ...

The gambit has triggered a national redistricting war, with governors of both parties threatening to initiate similar efforts in other states.

Texas Republicans are moving closer to approving new congressional maps amid a Democratic show of protest over the GOP House ...

Texas' Republican-led legislature is expected to approve new congressional maps that add five new House seats that the GOP could win.

The effort is intended to help the G.O.P. win five more U.S. House seats in the midterm elections. California will counter on ...

House Bill 4, the redistricting legislation, is the only item on the lawmakers' agenda when they reconvene on Wednesday.

Other Texas Democrats, including from DFW, joined Rep. Nicole Collier after they tore up their “permission slips” to leave ...