Correction, Sept. 11, 2026.
The cheapest public records request is the one nobody has to file.
Austin ISD plans to borrow $140 million this fall to cover paychecks until property tax money arrives, after its own budget office told trustees the district finished last school year $86 million in the red — $67 million worse than the deficit the board adopted — and with two campuses now failing long enough to put the district in line for state intervention.
Longview picked up recycling from half its households before a 2024 fire destroyed the plant that took the material.
Texas’ fish and wildlife agency has asked state environmental regulators not to give Corpus Christi more time than the city asked for before it must resume sending fresh water down to Nueces Bay, the nursery for the region’s shrimp and redfish.
The average Fort Worth home lost $13,616 in taxable value this year and the city has proposed raising its property tax rate by 3.2 cents.
Gov. Greg Abbott traveled to Fort Worth to promote his property tax reform legislative proposal, holding up Tarrant County as a model for local governments across Texas after the county adopted a resolution endorsing his agenda.
Corpus Christi has asked state environmental regulators for emergency permission to stop sending water down the Nueces River to the bays, days after the rains that rescued its water supply also triggered the legal obligation to release it.
Travis County District Judge Maria Cantú Hexsel ruled twice on Aug. 13, and both times she said no.