Covering Texas state agencies, regulatory commissions, and governmental bodies shaping policy across the Lone Star State.
Texas firefighters would have to spend at least four hours a year actually pulling hose, throwing ladders and working in an air pack — not clicking through modules on a station computer — under a rule change the state’s firefighter advisory committee took up Sept. 24.
Gary VanDeaver, the former rural superintendent who fought private school vouchers in 2023 who was one of only two House Republicans to vote no when they passed in 2025, will take over the Texas Association of School Boards on Oct. 1.
The board that oversees the state program monitoring Texas doctors with addiction and mental health conditions meets Sept. 25 to take up drug and alcohol testing — an item that has appeared on every posted agenda since at least July 2023 and has never produced a recorded decision.
The board that governs the State Bar of Texas meets Sept. 25 to decide whether to put a change in the rules for investigating complaints against lawyers to a vote of the state's active lawyers.
Farms, factories and city water systems that pump from the Edwards Aquifer must cut their withdrawals by 35 percent after the aquifer's key monitoring well dropped below 640 feet, six weeks after the region had climbed out of the same drought stage.
By Mohamad Sam I run an online business in Texas selling eco-friendly products like glass water bottles and cotton grocery bags.
Seven people were granted state licenses to do forensic work in Texas on qualifying exams they had not actually passed, an audit by the agency that issues those licenses found — and three of them held the kind of license the state requires to analyze evidence used in criminal cases.
Heights Elementary School in Texas City Independent School District has been designated a 2026 Texas Lone Star Ribbon School, one of just 25 public schools in the state to receive the honor this year, according to a Sept. 22 news release from the office of state Rep. Terri Leo Wilson.
The Texas Department of Agriculture's Del Rio Livestock Export Facility is reopening to horse exports to Mexico, Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller announced Sept. 22, following negotiations between the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and Mexico's National Service of Agro-Alimentary Health, Safety and Quality (SENASICA).
McKinney residents of all ages are invited to join physician Francy Shu, MD, for the area's first Walk with a Doc Texas event on Saturday, Sept. 26, according to a Sept. 22 media advisory from the Texas Medical Association (TMA).
The Texas General Land Office (GLO) has entered into two new hard mineral leases for rare earth minerals with El Paso Minerals Corp. covering more than 1,000 acres in Hudspeth County, Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., announced Sept. 22.
The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) has received the 2026 Small Project Award from the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) for emergency work to reclaim an abandoned mine portal beneath a residence in Bridgeport, the commission said in a Sept. 22 news release.
Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian urged Texas oil and gas operators to report petroleum product and property theft, according to a Sept. 22 news release from the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC), after testimony before a Senate committee highlighted the growing cost of oilfield crime.
The five-member board that sets Texas highway policy meets Sept. 24 to award state grants for the bridges and underpasses that carry roads over railroad tracks.