- Progressives unveil legislation cracking down on Flock cameras
- Major bill to set standards for college athletes’ pay passes US Senate
- Texas Standard for September 29, 2026: Federal changes narrow Endangered Species Act protections
- High-tech travel trailer uses batteries and the sun for power
- Frustrations, remorse and pain surface on 25th anniversary of Sept. 11 attacks
- Amazon drone delivery could soon come to more Texans — like it or not
- How much water and power do data centers really use?
- Trump says he may pull Blanche AG nomination until Sens. Cornyn, Tillis leave office
- Big new power lines could prevent blackouts in Texas. Dan Patrick wants to block them
- What to know about possible border barriers in Big Bend
- State finds some registered Texas voters were wrongly flagged as potential noncitizens
- Judge declines to block Big Bend area border wall
- With future of US-Mexico-Canada trade in limbo, Texas businesses navigate choppy waters
- ICE never stopped chasing people in cars in the Rio Grande Valley
- You’re not imagining it: Your kid’s school supplies cost more this year
- Cornyn reaches deal to scrap DOJ anti-weaponization fund, ending Blanche standoff
- A lawsuit from GOP states to end trans protections ended by rolling back disability rights
- Data Centers in Colorado: Separating Fact from Fear
- Kay Granger, first Texas Republican woman elected to US House, dies at 83
- Austin’s SAFE Alliance receives $1 million in federal funding for housing to aid abuse victims
- Gov. Abbott has ordered a ‘pause’ on data center approvals. Will it make a difference?
- Texas Standard for Aug. 5, 2026: Texas A&M professors sue over race and gender teaching rules
- Latino voters could decide key races in Texas. They’re still weighing their options
- Three Houston-area moms sue over Ten Commandments in schools. They say it violates Texas’ own laws
- Professors sue Texas A&M System over limits on teaching race, gender
- James Talarico accused Ken Paxton of voter fraud. His own voter registration is raising questions.
- Trump administration pauses border construction in Big Bend National Park
- Lawmakers set their sights on surveillance pricing
- Trump signs new orders targeting birthright citizenship, weeks after Supreme Court ruling
- What the numbers tell us about school voucher participation so far
- How four Tarrant cities are wooing economic development as land availability shrinks
- Synthetic fabrics kneecapped American cotton. Industry leaders have a plan to revive it
- Trump calls Texas’ data center opposition a ‘mistake’
- Camp Mystic paid Eastland family members nearly $300K as revenue plunged after deadly flood
- Proposed Head Start changes would shift costs — and risk — to Texas
- Texas Standard for Aug. 12, 2026: Corpus Christi voters to decide Fair Water Amendment
- Tesla and SpaceX to construct massive microchip factory in Grimes County
- Border wall construction threatens access to site of 1918 massacre in West Texas
- Corpus Christi puts industrial water charge on November ballot
- ‘Like caged birds.’ Migrant kids held in San Diego short-term immigration detention for weeks
- Big tech’s data center PR problem
- HUD wants to overhaul a homelessness response program. Some Texas communities are worried
- Texas has started handing out school voucher funding. Over 20,000 students have returned the money.
- Texas regulators prepare fraud case against TEXITcoin as founder denies wrongdoing
- Texas schools see modest improvement in 2026 A-F ratings. Here’s how they fared
- Paxton, Roblox clash over documents in children’s safety lawsuit
- TPS recipients hope a potential change of power in Congress provides relief from deportation
- Broadband grants paused as critics allege favoritism toward Elon Musk’s Starlink
- Minnesota sues Gov. Abbott as ICE agent charged in shooting faces possible release in Texas
- A Houston high school teacher said students couldn’t read or write. Then the school got an ‘A’ rating
- Former Texas Lottery chief heads to court. Here’s how the agency’s troubles unfolded
- Texas Standard for Aug. 21, 2026: Virtual public schools expand across Texas
- Parents are giving up green card fights to get their kids out of immigrant jail
- Texas could get more control over Head Start. What would that mean for childcare?
- Deaf migrants deported without access to sign language interpreters
- Hemp industry files new lawsuit over Texas THC ban claiming job losses, medical marijuana monopoly
- Texas juvenile prisons were on ‘full lockdown’ for days after officer’s assault, state says
- Minnesota drops extradition lawsuit against Abbott after ICE officer’s arrest
- Industry warns of blackouts, economic woes if Texas overreacts to data center, transmission line anger
- Federal judge strikes down Texas law restricting drag performances
- Who is Aaron Reitz? The federal ‘MAGA attorney’ overseeing prosecution of the Houston ICE shooting
- ICE officer in Minnesota-Texas extradition fight is freed from jail
- Austin mother who spent 2 months in ICE detention is reunited with her infant son
- What does it mean to be a Texas Republican in 2026? It depends who you ask
- Meta’s child safety lawsuit settlements, including with Texas, amount to billions
- Texas Standard for Aug. 28, 2026: Texas-Minnesota extradition fight tests limits of federalism
- American ranchers are irked by Trump’s efforts to bring down beef prices: ‘This is a mistake’
- ICE agent Christian Castro released from Minnesota state custody, pleads not guilty in federal court
- More than 1.2 million Texas voter registrations are flagged. Here’s what voters should know
- Texas Standard for Aug. 31, 2026: High electric bills leave more Texans at risk of shutoffs
- Almost a year after the Pentagon formed a ‘barracks task force,’ some say repairs are moving slowly
- As school libraries are pushed to remove books, a West Texas district stands by its library council
- New Texas laws expand repair rights, regulate solar sellers and recognize gold as money
- John Whitmire had big plans for Houston. But the city’s strong-mayor system has been hitting walls
- Despite protest, regulators clear path for bigger transmission lines across Texas
- Middleton leads Johnson in race for Texas attorney general, but the contest is unusually close
- GOP’s first midterm convention kicks off Wednesday, putting Dallas at center of national politics
- Tarrant County’s November elections will have 92 fewer places to cast ballots than 2022
- Data centers could be the sleeper issue of the 2026 midterm elections
- The Rio Grande is drying up. What does that mean for Texas?
- ICE agent in Jan. 14 Minneapolis shooting makes first appearance in Minnesota state court
- From juice stand to cookbook: The story behind Austin’s Veracruz All Natural
- As Republicans plan to gather in Bush’s backyard, his influence is largely absent from the party
- Texas State Board of Education approves controversial curriculum that Muslims call discriminatory
- Texas Standard for Sept. 8, 2026: Texas political legend Ben Barnes looks back on career
- Democrats see an opening in deep-red West Texas thanks to Talarico
- Texas officials are cracking down on “illegal birth tourism.” Here’s what that means.
- U.S. farmers lost conservation experts in Trump’s federal cuts. Now they’re hurting for help
- Ted Cruz is acting like he’ll run for president again
- Longtime Texas politico Ben Barnes is out with a new memoir examining his legacy
- As young people drink less, bars add more nonalcoholic options to menus
- One group has stayed mostly mum on Bo French’s racist post — Texas’ oil and gas industry
- Texas Standard for Sept. 16, 2026: UT students respond after Bo French targets them online
- $12 billion in Medicaid funds restored to Texas hospitals, ending impasse with the feds
- ICE officer shoots, injures man in Austin, officials say
- Every dollar spent by a Texas library puts almost $5 back into the economy, study shows
- Abbott ramps up attacks on Democratic challenger, Gina Hinojosa, as Texas governor’s race tightens
- Democrats adopting the socialist term may distract voters from the issues these candidates support
- Democrats plan last-ditch attempt at a federal pay raise in 2027
- Immigrant’s shooting in Texas again raises questions over ICE tactics
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