Covering Texas state agencies, regulatory commissions, and governmental bodies shaping policy across the Lone Star State.
Three Texas counties may leave fire sprinklers out of the cells where they lock people up — including a 500-bed jail Liberty County has not built yet — under votes the state’s jail regulator took Nov. 5.
The Texas Legislature has not overridden a governor's veto since 1979.
Governor Greg Abbott announced the launch of the Texas Classroom Commission, a new teacher-driven advisory body designed to put public school educators at the center of shaping state education policy.
Texans who buy their own health insurance are on track for a second consecutive year of steep premium increases, as insurers across the country file 2027 rates that would push the cost of Affordable Care Act coverage up by more than a third over two years.
Fort Worth ISD, the state's largest school district under a full Texas Education Agency takeover, is moving to close a campus and erase a tens-of-millions-dollar deficit as its appointed leadership tries to lift student outcomes fast enough to hand control back to an elected board.
The Texas Department of Insurance has launched a set of public data tools showing average home insurance premiums in every county, insurer claim payouts and a searchable index of rate filings, announced June 22, giving consumers new visibility into one of the nation's most expensive insurance markets.
A year after Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed the Legislature's THC ban, the Texas Senate's health committee spent Tuesday morning assembling the public health case for trying again.
Texas' first-year education savings account program is on track to fund nearly 96,000 students for 2026-27, roughly 23,000 more than began drawing money on July 1.
As Texas enters the summer stretch when appraisal rolls are certified and local governments set next year's tax rates, more than 130 cities are entering it under an order that they cannot raise property taxes at all above the no-new-revenue rate.
The U.S. southern border reaches one year closed to livestock trade this week, and with New World screwworm now established inside Texas, the calculus for reopening it has been turned on its head.
The Texas Department of Transportation is inviting Texans to help shape the state's roadways for the next decade, opening a monthlong public comment period on its draft 2027 Unified Transportation Program.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is opening the Backcountry Area at Enchanted Rock State Natural Area for expanded public day use on July 7, the first phase of self-guided access to one of the park's newest expansions, according to a July 6 news release from the agency.
Governor Greg Abbott announced that Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas Inc. will execute an expansion at its San Antonio assembly campus, constructing a second vehicle manufacturing line to boost its domestic production capacity.
The Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office (TREO) has issued a draft regulatory review recommending the amendment or repeal of 26 rules within the Texas Racing Commission (TXRC).