As Texas appraisal districts race toward the July 25 deadline to certify their tax rolls, the state's two most powerful Republicans are advancing competing visions for the next round of property-tax cuts, and the gap between them will frame the property tax debate.
Oregon has published the first hard results from its producer-funded recycling system, offering a working example of the kind of stable, self-financing collection infrastructure Texas could build.
The number of confirmed New World screwworm infestations in the United States has climbed to 35, with 34 in Texas and one in New Mexico, according to the U.
Texas families will get their next hard look at student achievement on July 31, when the Texas Education Agency releases spring 2026 STAAR science results for grades 5 and 8, the final piece of this year's testing data and the first science scores measured fully against the revised science standards the state adopted in 2024.
The tally of New World screwworm cases has risen to 34 and pushed into the Big Bend area for the first time, ending a week-long plateau in the outbreak that has spread across West and South Texas since June.
The amount of local property-tax revenue Texas clawed back from property-wealthy school districts fell sharply in the 2025-26 school year, the first full accounting since lawmakers rewrote the school-finance formulas.
The largest state share of a new federal rural-health fund has started reaching individual Texas counties, a step toward shoring up the hospitals and clinics whose closures drive up costs and shrink access across rural Texas.
The count of New World screwworm has held at 32 confirmed animal cases for a full week, the longest plateau since the pest crossed into Texas in early June.
A year and four days after the Hill Country floods killed dozens of campers and counselors, the state officials who now license Texas youth camps told senators Wednesday that the new safety law has teeth.
Texans who buy their own health insurance are on track for a second consecutive year of steep premium increases, as insurers across the country file 2027 rates that would push the cost of Affordable Care Act coverage up by more than a third over two years.