TEXAS, USA — This article was originally published by our content partners at the Texas Tribune. Read the original article here. A bill that would give parents more power over which books their ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — On a sweltering Saturday afternoon in August, a group of parents escaped the heat with their children to go to an indoor story time led by someone who looked like she might have ...

Librarian Judith Bergeron answers the phone in her office at the Smithville Public Library in Smithville, Texas, on March 11, 2024. (Maria Crane For The Texas Tribune, Maria Crane For The Texas ...

The Judson High School library in Converse in 2020. A new law regulating the books Texas public school students can access in their campus libraries has spurred an ongoing legal battle. (Allie ...

Beyond a pair of double doors resembling a storybook archway, a dozen preschoolers sat cross-legged in a room transformed into an enchanted forest. But their attention was not drawn to the walls where ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Someone was shot inside a downtown library in Texas’ state capital city on Saturday, police said, prompting emergency vehicles and personnel to converge on the building and a ...

As more and more Texas school boards seek to censor books deemed too controversial or sexual in content, a conservative court in Texas ruled Friday that government entities, including public libraries ...

Pictured are bookshelves at a school library in Houston. A bill that would give parents more power over which books their children can read in public school libraries will soon go before Texas ...

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