A Texas mum who shot and killed her two daughters posted a message on Facebook in March demanding the right to keep semiautomatic handguns.

Two people have been killed and several others injured in a shooting outside a Texas dance studio.

Torrential rains in Texas have deluged hundreds of homes, led to prison evacuations and killed at least 16 people in the past week, US officials say.

The arrest of a Kiwi online predator helped authorities in the US nab a child sex offender.

"Y'all not from round here, are ya? Ain't nobody drinks Buuuud. This is Shiner Bock country, sir."

Sweetwater, Texas, has a big annual event. The centrepiece is a bloody hunt: thousands of Western diamond rattlesnakes are caught, milked, and skinned.

Winston Aldworth flies aboard NZ28, the inaugural Auckland-to-Houston flight.

The brash, bold Texas of JR Ewing's day is still there, but is now overlaid with a veneer of culture, writes Samuel Muston.

Bigger, better, busier - that's Texas, writes Megan Singleton.

There's plenty more to Dallas than JFK, finds Megan Singleton.

Sample the cowboy lifestyle - hire a car and visit the best that Houston and nearby Texas Hill Country have to offer, says Tim Lamb.

Ahead of Air New Zealand beginning its direct flights to Houston in December, Ewan McDonald visits the space base.

The death of a black woman three days after being arrested in a routine traffic stop has once again put the spotlight on US police.

In Dallas, Winston Aldworth finds there's still plenty of heat in the conspiracy theories.

In the wake of an incident which saw a police officer pull a gun on a teenager at a Texas pool party, Jeff Wiltse recounts the long history of racial tension at America's swimming pools.

A driver led Texas police on a slow-speed chase for nearly three hours earlier this morning.

In bikie club culture where loyalty and territory are highly valued, disagreements can too easily boil over, writes Jarrod Gilbert.

Air New Zealand's Auckland-Houston flights will be the longest on the airline's network.

Jury selection in the trial of a man accused of killing former Navy Seal Chris Kyle - author of American Sniper - has begun.

Man shot dead one person at William Beaumont Army Medical Centre in Texas before killing himself.

A luxury mansion left hanging off a lakeside cliff in Texas has gone down in a blaze of glory.

Veronique Dupont finds a veritable treasure trove of contemporary art in the desert city of Marfa.

A family in Texas claim to have shot and killed a chupacabra, a mythical creature with a reputation for sucking blood from live-stock across America.

Sites associated with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 are scattered throughout Dallas and beyond.