A data investigation into the Harris County certified appraisal roll has revealed widespread vulnerabilities in how Texas manages its primary residential tax break.
For most of a seven-and-a-half-hour hearing Wednesday, witness after witness told the House Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs the same thing: Texas keeps paying to jail people whose real problem is untreated mental illness, addiction or homelessness, and the bill keeps coming back.
Administrative law judges overseeing a central segment of the state’s Permian Basin Reliability Plan have ruled that their upcoming routing recommendation will not determine whether the transmission line is actually necessary.
The Texas Comptroller’s office has awarded nearly 3,800 additional Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) to students previously held on the program’s waitlist.
The number of confirmed New World screwworm cases in the United States has risen to 19, with 18 now identified in Texas and one in New Mexico.
Last week, state education officials released the first batch of student test data since Texas implemented its statewide ban on student cellphones during the school day.
In much of Texas, a data center can sink a well and pump as much groundwater as it wants, and no state agency is empowered to stop it.
The federal registry for the New World screwworm outbreak has reached 16 confirmed cases following a new detection in a goat in Terrell County.
The New World screwworm outbreak has spread into Crockett County, marking the fifteenth confirmed detection in the United States.
The Fort Worth City Council is scheduled to take final rezoning votes on a proposed $10 billion data center campus on June 23, 2026.