The Latest Breaking News from Texas

So far there has been an average of six boil-water notices a day across Texas in 2023.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Leon County Circuit Court judge on Friday refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Ron DeSantis brought by a North Miami Beach state senator who has accused Florida’s governor of illegally using taxpayer funds to fly migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts last September.

Prisoners have refused food to protest practices that have kept more than 500 people in isolation for more than a decade.

The Texas State Legislature convened its 2023 regular legislative session on Jan. 10. The legislature can refer constitutional amendments, in the form of statewide ballot measures, to the ballot in odd-numbered and even-numbered years. However, Texas is one of four states with biennial legislative sessions that meet in odd-numbered years;…

Our record-breaking summer provided a preview of what’s to come.

Some 50 Texas officials have attended trainings on the unsupported notion that sheriffs can overrule the law

Tesla is expanding outside of Austin. It's working on a lithium refinery near Corpus Christi and leasing a new building near Houston that may be battery-related.

The oil industry pushed hard against the proposal to issue an ozone nonattainment designation, which would have required that companies reduce oilfield emissions.

Oil sector advocates pushed hard against an ozone nonattainment designation, which would have required oilfield emissions reductions.

What a difference a few years make in the Texas oil patch.

The renamed sites are in California, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas, and complete a yearlong process to remove the historically offensive word "squaw" from geographic names across the country.