Two Texas students were reprimanded after they performed a skit portraying the assassination of President-elect Donald Trump.

A woman who killed her cheating millionaire husband in a road rage attack was sent thousands of taunting messages by his mistress.

Houstonians love their city and love to share it, writes Leena Tailor.

Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka, has her own dedicated army of followers - or should we say clones? They're spending big to look just like their idol.

If you've just been groped on a plane, but it's too late for the captain to kick the offending passenger off the flight, what would you do?

A lawyer who injured nine in a shooting rampage in Houston was wearing Nazi emblems and was carrying nearly 2600 rounds of ammunition in a Porsche.

A female shooter has injured a classmate before turning the gun on herself at a high school in Texas, according to local reports.

It's unanimous ... on Twitter: Dallas police chief David Brown should join the race to become the next president of the United States.

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

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.

Ewan McDonald sips the flavours of the Old South in Texas and New Orleans.

The Texan capital has an outlaw spirit that makes it the perfect place to party, writes Ewan McDonald.

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

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.

One person has been killed and another seriously hurt in a tornado that has torn across Texas.

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.