Lubbock Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows clinched the Texas House speakership Tuesday in the culmination of an unusually long and unusually public mudfight for the role. As expected ...

A 2024 war among Republicans tilted the House to the right. Now more closely aligned with the Senate, Speaker Dustin Burrows ...

State Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, speaks to his family on the opening day of the 89th Texas legislative session in Austin, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Stephen Spillman)(Stephen Spillman ...

AUSTIN — The 89th legislative session began Tuesday with members of the Texas House electing Rep. Dustin Burrows as their new speaker after a month-long divisive battle among Republicans.

State Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, holds a press conference in the Speaker's Committee Room on Saturday saying he has the votes to become Texas House speaker in the upcoming legislative session.

State Representative James Talarico, who is also a seminary student, explains why he thinks the Ten Commandments bill is ...

Every district will have a seat at the table." U.S. Rep Dustin Burrows (R-TX) adjourns a public hearing on June 17, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. On Tuesday Burrows was elected as the next Speaker of the ...

As several Texas House members huddled around 95-year-old Hargie Savoy as she sat in her wheelchair near a front corner of the spacious chamber Wednesday, Speaker Dustin Burrows left his post at ...

Texas State Rep. Dustin Burrows, a Lubbock Republican, is vying for Texas Speaker of the House - another development in what has been his non-conventional rise to power in the state legislature.

A small graveyard in East Texas is almost all that remains of a once-thriving river port town on the banks of the Sabine River, just north of what is now Easton.