A federal judge has thrown out the Texas affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers' challenge to the state's investigations of educators over social media posts, ruling that the union could not show the state education commissioner had created any new rule for a court to strike down.
Texas health officials are proposing to delete the sentence that tells a family caring for a disabled relative at home exactly how little it may pay the worker who helps.
Texas issued more than 45,000 open-records rulings last year and is on pace to beat that by 10 percent.
For nearly 21 years, a Texan who registered to speak at a Railroad Commission open meeting was guaranteed a turn at the microphone.
A Texas school district moved roughly $97 million into a private charity it helped create, and on Aug. 26 a House committee spent four and a half hours trying to establish who is allowed to look at it.
On Sunday, Aug. 23, Texas homes and businesses drew 90,411 megawatts of electricity in a single hour — more than on any weekend day in the state’s history, and more than on any day ever recorded except one.
Texas pays 56 peer service coordinators to reach veterans in crisis across 254 counties.
The average Fort Worth home lost $13,616 in taxable value this year and the city has proposed raising its property tax rate by 3.2 cents.
Texas environmental regulators have given Corpus Christi permission to stop releasing water from its two main reservoirs into Nueces Bay, an emergency order that took effect immediately and runs through Dec. 23.
Texas made itself the gatekeeper for driverless commercial vehicles last year.