More than 100 years ago, developers lured farmers to the Rio Grande Valley by marketing the “Magic Valley,” a tropical place of plentiful water where crops grow year-round.

The Texas House passed Friday a bill requiring prisons to have air conditioning by the end of 2032.

In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court found Texas’ ban on homosexual conduct to be unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas. More than 20 years later, the Legislature took its first steps ...