The Texas Workforce Commission has awarded a $150,000 Texas Industry Partnership grant to Workforce Solutions Lower Rio Grande Valley and The PossAble Dream Foundation to expand job training for adult learners in South Texas, the agency announced in a July 23 news release.
Texas health officials open the floor to public comment today on a proposed Medicaid pay increase aimed at the rural hospitals still delivering babies — one of a slate of rate changes the state wants in effect by Sept.
A federal judge in Oregon is about to decide a case that will shape how — and whether — states can require companies to pay for recycling the packaging they sell, and Texas has a stake in the outcome even though it has no such law.
Texas built its growth story on a simple promise: a family could move here and afford a home.
The Texas Senate Committee on Higher Education will hear invited testimony July 29 on the distribution methods for the Permanent University Fund and the newer Texas University Fund, and whether either needs reform as more campuses seek research dollars.
Texas added 43,400 nonfarm jobs in June and 177,900 over the past year, the Texas Workforce Commission reported, pushing total employment in the state to 14,469,600 positions.
The Texas Department of Transportation has opened the state’s first mechanical runaway truck ramp, a safety system on Loop 375 in El Paso designed to stop big rigs that lose their brakes.
The Texas Department of Transportation is urging drivers to slow down, warning that speeding remains the leading factor in the state’s deadliest crashes.
In late July 2026, the structural foundation of the Texas public education system faced its most significant legal challenge in a decade.