Covering Texas state agencies, regulatory commissions, and governmental bodies shaping policy across the Lone Star State.
Williamson County is asking state regulators for a formal hearing on a proposed taxing district for 108.7 acres about a mile north of Leander, and the state's own lawyers disagree on whether the county is entitled to one.
Twenty student nurses at Hill College finished their pediatrics and childbirth courses without ever caring for a real patient, and the Texas Board of Nursing would not let their graduation papers be signed until they went back and did the hours.
Texas sent 41.3 million tons of municipal waste to landfills in its most recent fiscal year and recovered only about 2 million tons for recycling or reuse — roughly one ton diverted for every 20 buried — according to the state's latest waste accounting, even as volunteers keep pulling tons of bottles and cans from Texas rivers and beaches.
The New World screwworm has pushed into the South Texas borderlands for the first time, prompting the Texas Animal Health Commission to stand up a tenth formal quarantine zone as the confirmed U.S. case count reached 26, according to FOX 7 Austin.
The Texas Transportation Commission finalized a series of major funding approvals and infrastructure updates during its June 2026 meeting, expanding the state’s long-term infrastructure roadmap.
The Texas State Board of Education is scheduled to take final votes on Friday, June 26, on two changes to the state's public-school curriculum: a rewrite of the social studies standards and a new statewide reading list that would add Bible stories to required reading.
Government regulations rarely disappear once they're created, even as industries, technology and the public demands change.
The number of confirmed New World screwworm cases in the United States has risen to 20 — 19 in Texas and one in New Mexico — after the flesh-eating parasite turned up in a bovine in Medina County, according to FOX 7 Austin's Amber Kite, whose June 25 reporting cited federal and state animal-health agencies.
Four months into the job, Texas Insurance Commissioner Amanda Crawford spent Wednesday morning answering for the price of keeping a roof insured.
Governor Greg Abbott announced the approval of the eighth loan agreement under the Texas Energy Fund (TxEF), greenlighting an infrastructure project designed to bring 860 megawatts (MW) of new, reliable dispatchable power to West Texas.
In late June 2026, a sweeping set of executive directives from the Governor's office placed the future of the state's economic infrastructure at the center of intense institutional and regulatory planning.
Administrative law judges overseeing a central segment of the state’s Permian Basin Reliability Plan have ruled that their upcoming routing recommendation will not determine whether the transmission line is actually necessary.
The Texas Comptroller’s office has awarded nearly 3,800 additional Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) to students previously held on the program’s waitlist.
The number of confirmed New World screwworm cases in the United States has risen to 19, with 18 now identified in Texas and one in New Mexico.