The number of confirmed New World screwworm cases in the United States rose to 44 over the weekend, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, which tracks every confirmed detection on a public dashboard updated daily.
Texas' two top presiding officers have lined up behind a Senate committee chairman's call for state regulators to reject pending applications for the first 765-kilovolt transmission lines ever proposed in Texas, and the House will take up the issue at its own hearing in three weeks — a rapid escalation that leaves one of the largest infrastructure projects in state history facing resistance from multiple corners of the Capitol.
The organization that polices reliability standards on the ERCOT grid grades its own metrics on a traffic-light system.
Foreign adversaries are moving money through Texas banks, licensed wire services and the crypto kiosks at neighborhood gas stations — and the federal government cannot keep up.
The Texas Education Agency is due to release the last missing piece of this year's standardized-test results on Thursday — the grade 5 and grade 8 science scores from the spring STAAR exam — closing out a 2026 results cycle the state broke into stages for the first time.
Texas is moving to string a new backbone of ultra-high-voltage power lines across the state — and on Wednesday the people whose land sits in the path came to the Capitol in numbers rarely seen for an interim hearing.
The state agencies that keep the lights on told a Senate panel Wednesday that Texas is planning for a grid nearly double the size of today’s — and that the surge is being driven by an unfamiliar customer: the data center.
When storms opened over the Texas Hill Country last week — nearly a year to the day after floodwaters killed more than 130 people along the Guadalupe River — camp leaders across the region said they were watching the sky with new tools and a hard-earned sense of urgency.
The man who wrote Texas’ sweeping higher-education governance law came back to the committee that produced it Tuesday — this time as a witness, not a senator — to report that the campuses he now helps run are moving faster than the statute requires.
The federal government said it will stop propping up Medicare prescription-drug premiums after this year, a change that could raise 2027 drug-plan costs for the more than 1.7 million Texans who buy stand-alone Part D coverage.