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AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Tuesday, Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) launched the iWatchTexas community reporting system to “protect the public from coercion and ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officially has a new class of state troopers. On Friday, 138 new recruits took their oath at Great Hills Baptist Church in northwest ...

On Friday, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) welcomed 138 new Texas Highway Patrol Troopers from recruit Class ...

The Texas Department of Public Safety is developing a new building for the fast-growing city's first driver's license office. League City residents needing a driver’s license soon won’t have ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) seized nearly $7 million worth of cocaine in Hidalgo County last week. According to a release from DPS, DPS special agents and ...

The Texas Department of Public Safety plans to build a 14,034-square-foot driver's license office at 1202 Highway 3, according to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. Austin-based ...

GATESVILLE, Texas (KWTX) — Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Troopers are investigating a deadly crash involving a 2016 RAM 3500 truck on Highway 84 that happened February 27. According to ...

A Texas suspect's plan "similar to the deadly 2016 Dallas ambush" was thwarted by local and federal officials on Monday, authorities said. Seth "Andrea" Gregori, 21, was arrested on a terroristic ...

Cindy Barkley, with the Texas Department of Public Safety. One person died in a vehicle accident after driving into smoke, according to Gov. Kevin Stitt in Oklahoma. The governor praised the early ...

Unger, whose duty is to set bonds in cases like these, should have set the amount higher to avoid compromising public safety ... reported that the State of Texas filed for a proof-evident hearing ...