Two middle schools in Austin drew a fifth straight failing grade in the school report cards the state released Friday, and that makes Austin the only district in Texas where the education commissioner is now required by law to step in.
Cartel fuel trafficking generates an estimated $12 billion to $21 billion a year — and some federal investigators now believe it has passed narcotics as the cartels' top revenue stream, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety told the Senate Select Committee on Homeland and Border Security Thursday.
Fort Worth wants to raise its property tax rate by 3.2 cents, and the average homeowner's city tax bill would go down $21.34.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced that Microsoft, Hut 8 and Equinix, along with Galaxy, Compass Datacenters and Montera Infrastructure, will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data centers, according to a pair of Aug. 13 news releases from the governor's office.
State Representative Katrina Pierson has laid out a 12-part legislative package under the banner of the Texas Women's Health Initiative, pairing six women's health proposals with six broader medical measures aimed at prevention, early detection, treatment access and protecting the physician-patient relationship, according to an Aug. 12 news release and initiative materials from her office.
ERCOT, the agency that runs the power grid for most of Texas, told state regulators Monday that the audit of every data center waiting to plug into the grid will take several months — and asked permission to miss the deadlines its own rules set for sorting those projects.
A drone expert opened the first hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Homeland and Border Security Wednesday with a countdown: "In security terms, today, August 12th is August 12, 2001.
The largest infusion of federal health money rural Texas has ever received is moving from applications to contracts this month.
San Antonio City Manager Erik Walsh presents his formal 2027 budget to the City Council today, and it is expected to carry something no city budget there has carried since the early 1990s: a property-tax rate increase.
Texas oil and gas wells surface roughly 24 million barrels of salty water every day — more than a billion gallons — and the state's plan to turn that waste stream into a water supply now hinges on rules still being written and a jurisdictional boundary two agencies admit they cannot locate.