Governor Greg Abbott used a Tuesday event in Bullard to promote what he calls a "taxpayer empowerment" plan, a five-point package he says would slow local tax increases and deliver lasting property tax relief.
Texas keeps burying material it could sell.
With the 2025-26 school year now complete, Texas has finished the first full year under House Bill 1481, the statewide prohibition on student use of personal communication devices during the school day, and the early assessments from educators, teacher groups, and researchers point in the same general direction: noticeably calmer campuses, with the harder questions about discipline and academic results still unresolved.
One of the largest single data-center projects yet planned in Texas is approaching an operational milestone in a rural county west of Fort Worth.
As the notice dispute over the central Permian Basin Reliability Plan line draws attention to Bell County, the westernmost leg of the same 765-kilovolt corridor is moving toward its own decision point.
The number of confirmed New World screwworm cases in the United States has climbed to 27 animals as of June 29, nearly all of them in Texas, while the cattle futures market, which includes the state's $15 billion cattle sector, is nearing all-time highs.
Nine months into one of the largest school-district takeovers in Texas history, the first round of statewide test results offers an early measure of whether new state-appointed leadership is moving the needle in Fort Worth.
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.
A new statewide survey finds that a majority of Texas voters do not want a data center built in their own community, a result that lands as the state races to become the country's largest market for the AI and crypto facilities.
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.