Aurora Innovation, Inc. launched its commercial self-driving truck yesterday. It will make regular customer deliveries between Dallas and Houston.

Fred VanVleet scored 26 points, Amen Thompson added 25 and the Houston Rockets avoided elimination with a 131-116 rout of the Golden State Warriors in Game 5 of a first-round playoff series.

Gov. Greg Abbott will hold a press conference on Wednesday to discuss the Texas bail system with advocates for tougher bail standards.

Republican lawmakers are considering a bill to strengthen the state’s ban on homeless encampments and speed up the eviction process.

Schoolchildren threatened with eviction are more likely to end up in another district or transfer to another school.

Warriors forward Jimmy Butler is listed as questionable for Game 3 of Golden State’s first-round playoff series against the Houston Rockets after he sustained a pelvic contusion in a frightening fall during Game 2.

Oklahoma City has a chance to secure its spot in Round 2.

Golden State’s Jimmy Butler sustained a pelvis contusion after taking a hard fall on a foul by Amen Thompson late in the first quarter and missed the rest of the Warriors’ 109-94 loss to the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night.

Some Republicans have bristled at the hefty cost of the bill, and Democrats could reject the funding for it over the school voucher dispute.

Authorities say a shootout in front of a family courthouse between several Texas deputies and a man with a handgun wounded one of the deputies as well as the suspect.

Duke star Cooper Flagg is headed to the NBA as the favorite to be the No. 1 overall draft pick.

Stephen Curry scored 31 points and the Golden State Warriors built a huge lead and held on to beat the Houston Rockets 95-85 on Sunday night in Game 1 of the first-round playoff series.

The Eastern Conference semifinals are set: We already knew it was Cleveland vs.

Hope Lodge, a discount lodging option for cancer patients nationwide, will soon provide free stays and opportunities for families battling cancer in San Antonio and South Texas.

What would the dominant baseball narratives be if this season were 17 games long.

For the first time since Texas outlawed nearly all abortions, lawmakers are clarifying the “life of mother” exception. But they don’t plan to address cases where the fetus won’t survive.

The Final Fours held in the Alamodome have always been exciting. San Antonio has hosted some classic college basketball games and Monday’s championship between Florida and Houston had fans on the edge of their seats all night long.

Florida is a unanimous No. 1 in the final Associated Press men’s college basketball poll of the 2024-25 season after winning the national championship.

After a comeback win against Houston inside the Alamodome, the Florida Gators took a trip down the San Antonio River Walk to celebrate its third national title.

The 2025 NCAA Men’s Basketball National Championship game started with both teams trading baskets like body blows.

The end of national championship game was gritty and ugly, just the way Houston usually likes it.

Kelvin Sampson watched his Houston team come within seconds of the first NCAA title for both himself and the program.

Florida and Walter Clayton Jr. somehow overcame Houston’s spirit-crushing defense Monday night to will out a 65-63 victory in an NCAA title-game thriller not decided until Clayton’s own D stopped the Cougars from taking a game-winning shot at the buzzer.

Florida and Walter Clayton Jr. somehow overcame Houston’s spirit-crushing defense Monday night to will out a 65-63 victory in an NCAA title-game thriller not decided until Clayton’s own D stopped the Cougars from taking a game-winning shot at the buzzer.

The Texas Legislature is considering bills that transit officials warn could hamper public transportation in the Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth regions.

The University of Houston men’s basketball team is set to face the University of Florida in the NCAA Men’s Final Four National Championship, riding high after a thrilling 14-point comeback against Duke University.

After the University of Houston Cougars rallied from a 14-point deficit with eight minutes to play against Duke in Saturday night’s Final Four matchup, the Florida Gators understand how tough it is to beat Houston.

J’Wan Roberts has been at Houston for six seasons and played in 149 wins for the Cougars.

Whoever said there were no great underdog stories left in March Madness, or that the title would go to whoever spends the most money — or amasses the best collection of big names from the transfer portal — clearly never checked out Houston.

The Houston Cougars defeated the Duke Blue Devils 70-67 in the Final Four semifinal game, advancing to the championship and joining Florida in the title matchup.

Florida has gone from being picked to finish sixth in the rugged Southeastern Conference to playing for national championship.

Duke's push for its sixth national championship ended abruptly and in unlikely fashion with the Blue Devils squandering a double-digit second-half lead.

Houston’s suffocating defense wiped away a 14-point deficit over the final eight minutes and erased Cooper Flagg and Duke’s title hopes Saturday in a 70-67 stunner over the Blue Devils at the Final Four.

On the second day of the 2025 Men’s Final Four weekend, the excitement continued as the two winning teams advanced to compete for the championship title.

As the 2025 Men’s Final Four takes place, four San Antonio high school basketball teams participated in the pregame festivities.

Pretty much every basketball fan has heard of Duke’s Cooper Flagg. Nowhere near as many have heard of Houston’s Joseph Tugler.

With the 2025 NCAA Men’s Final Four officially kicking off on Saturday evening, all four teams—Auburn, Duke, Florida, and Houston—held open practices on Friday for fans and the media at the Alamodome.

Jalen Green had 34 points, Alperen Sengun added 31 and the Houston Rockets snapped the Oklahoma City Thunder’s 11-game winning streak with a 125-111 victory Friday night.

Auburn’s season began with some real turbulence on its first trip.

A decade ago, Bruce Pearl of Auburn and Kelvin Sampson of Houston were looking to resurrect their careers after being handed show-cause penalties by the NCAA for recruiting violations.

Extreme weather is dangerous weather, and that’s particularly true for the heavy rainfall events that experts say are becoming more frequent with climate change.

Weather forecasts sometimes warn of storms that can unleash rains so unusual that they are described as 100-year or even 500-year floods.

NASA's celebrity astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams say they would fly on Boeing's Starliner capsule again.

Fittingly for an NCAA Tournament in which big schools from big conferences took record numbers of spots in the first week, then hogged them all for the second week, the Final Four will bring four teams seeded No. 1 to the sport’s biggest stage to play for the title.

The 2025 NCAA Final Four in San Antonio features all four No. 1 seeds: Houston, Auburn, Florida, and Duke.

Houston’s relentless defense confused and harassed Tennessee and carried the Cougars into their seventh Final Four and first since 2021, with L.

Milos Uzan soared for an uncontested layup on a beautifully executed inbound play with 0.9 seconds left, and No. 1 seed Houston survived a late collapse to beat fourth-seeded Purdue 62-60 in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament.

Juan Soto hit his first home run with the New York Mets when he connected in the third inning against the Houston Astros.

Ryan Gerard and Keith Mitchell are part of a four-way tie for the lead at the rainy and windy Houston Open.

A Georgia bill to codify the right to in vitro fertilization got overwhelming in the state Senate and will likely go to Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk for his signature soon.

With a chance to make a late splash in his New York Mets debut, Juan Soto came up empty.

Republicans hold a tiny majority in the House, creating an incentive for Abbott to hold off on calling an election for Turner’s seat, which would likely be filled by a Democrat.

Houston coach Kelvin Sampson knows his team can always rely on defense to win games.

The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey, only to suddenly reverse course under Trump.

Loose cattle on the I-45 North Freeway in Houston caused udder chaos on Monday afternoon.

Houston police are looking for two suspects after six men were shot and wounded early Sunday at an after-hours nightclub.

LJ Cryer matched a career high with 30 points, including two free throws with 14.2 seconds left, and No. 1 seed Houston held on to beat eighth-seeded Gonzaga 81-76 on Saturday night to reach the Sweet 16 for the sixth straight NCAA Tournament.

An Orthodox Jewish passenger says a United Airlines pilot forcibly removed him from an airplane bathroom while he was experiencing constipation.

The NHL has met with a group led by billionaire Dan Friedkin to discuss its interest in bringing an expansion team to Houston.

SIU Edwardsville guard Ray'Sean Taylor broke down in tears after his team was routed by Houston in the NCAA Tournament.

The hopes of No. 1 seed Houston of cutting down the NCAA Tournament nets might rest on J’Wan Roberts’ ailing right ankle.

Edwards unsuccessfully ran for the seat twice last year. She faced off against U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee in the 2024 Democratic primary. Jackson Lee won the primary but died before the general election, opening the party’s nomination anew

The road to San Antonio for the 2025 Men’s Final Four begins Tuesday with the play-in round, First Four.

A second person has been arrested in connection to a Texas midwife who is accused of providing illegal abortions at three clinics around the Houston area.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced that a Houston-area midwife has been arrested and accused of providing illegal abortions, marking the first time authorities have filed criminal charges under the state’s near-total abortion ban.

The district has been a Democratic stronghold, held for decades by Sheila Jackson Lee and most recently by former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, who died March 5.

And then there were 1s.

Houston earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament for the third straight year and will open against first-time qualifier SIU-Edwardsville in Wichita, Kansas, on Thursday.

Turner, who spent nearly three decades in the Texas House and died last week, was remembered as a passionate Democrat committed to working across the aisle.

Texas’ population growth has slowed, but the state’s major urban areas are still adding hundreds of thousands of residents.

Khalil Mack will remain with the Los Angeles Chargers after agreeing to a one-year deal on Monday.

The Buffalo Bills on Friday reached an agreement to sign starting middle linebacker Terrel Bernard to a four-year contract extension worth up to $50 million, with $25.2 million of it guaranteed, in locking up their defensive leader through the 2029 season.

A new law was meant to uphold standards at homes where substance abusers are trying to rebuild their lives. But compliance is proving difficult.

Senate Bill 985 would revise a 2023 law that raised the minimum number of voting locations. County election officials say they’ve struggled to comply with it.

Turner’s death comes two months into his first term representing Texas’ 18th Congressional District, the seat long occupied by former U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who also died in office last year amid a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Texas-based iHeartMedia says it settled its legal dispute with Drake over Kendrick Lamar’s dis track “Not Like Us” after demonstrating that it “did nothing wrong.”.

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This week on Texas Eats, David Elder travels all across the state for some iconic Texas barbecue.

Amen Thompson had 25 points and eight rebounds, Jalen Green added 21 points and seven rebounds and the Houston Rockets beat the San Antonio Spurs 118-106 on Wednesday night.

Baseball and barbeque have been cherished American traditions for centuries, and their collaboration in creating fun memorabilia and hosting promotional events adds an extra layer of enjoyment.

The 75 co-sponsors plus the bill’s author would provide enough votes to pass Gov. Abbott’s top priority measure in the 150-seat House.

The development outside of Houston has long drawn the ire of Texas Republicans who claim it’s a haven for undocumented people.

All Texans connected to the state grid will now pay for the generators rather than just CenterPoint customers.

State researchers found above normal levels of four types of cancer in communities near a toxic waste site.

Two teenage girls have been arrested after authorities uncovered a plan to harm students at a Houston-area high school using guns and pipe bombs.

A team of financiers, including former Texas Longhorns standout Kevin Durant, appear to have fallen short of bringing a WNBA franchise to Central Texas.

A second Northside ISD teacher is on administrative leave in connection with a TEA investigation into a teacher-certification cheating scheme, district officials confirmed to KSAT Investigates on Monday.

The governor also called on lawmakers to prohibit the practice at all schools.

Draymond Green had just spoken for a few minutes Saturday morning about the state of the game, about how he believes it’s officiated differently than it once was, how stars don’t get the benefit of being stars like they did in the past.

Alex Bregman and the Boston Red Sox have agreed to a $120 million, three-year contract, a person familiar with the deal tells The Associated Press.

Christmas Day marked a milestone in media history, even if it's likely to be surpassed.

A special education teacher at Northside ISD has been placed on administrative leave in connection with a TEA investigation into a teacher-certification cheating scheme, district officials confirmed to KSAT on Friday.

Houston Astros all-time saves leader Billy Wagner will have his jersey number retired.

Several San Antonio-area lawmakers, led by U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, agreed Sunday to appear at a Monday afternoon news conference to discuss the White House’s tariffs.

After failed attempts in 2021 and 2023, southeast Texas lawmakers have filed bills to require generators in nursing homes and assisted living centers.

A man is in custody after firing a gun at another person during a high school band competition in the southeast Houston metro area, according to police.

An NFL spokesman says the league will look into allegations that Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker behaved inappropriately toward massage therapists at four spas and wellness centers in the Baltimore area.

Houston’s main electrical company backed off plans to raise rates after facing sharp criticism for its response to massive power outages after Hurricane Beryl.

Sixth-ranked Houston is riding a 13-game winning streak behind the stingiest defense in the nation.