Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas State Fire Marshal’s Office Announces Investigations Leading to Guilty Pleas
Jun 10 2025 // The Texas State Fire Marshal’s Office (SFMO), a division of the Texas Department of Insurance. announced three investigations that have led to guilty pleas: James Levorn Rias pleaded guilty to a first-degree murder...
Staff Vacancies Hit Texas Weather Offices as They Prepare for Hurricane Season
Jun 10 2025 // With hurricane season underway and an above-normal activity forecast, some National Weather Service offices like Houston — where as many as 44% of positions are vacant — are operating with staff shortages, prompting...
Texas Lawmakers Reined in Recreational THC for More Medical Marijuana
Jun 6 2025 // Texas lawmakers this year heavily focused their drug policy agenda on banning tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, products in the state. Senate Bill 3, which prohibits the possession of consumable hemp products that contain any...
BlackRock Escapes Texas Oil-Boycott List After ESG Retreat
Jun 5 2025 // BlackRock Inc. was removed from Texas’ blacklist of companies that boycott fossil fuels, ending a three-year standoff over the environmental policies of the world’s largest asset manager. The move means pension...
Colossal Cloud of Sahara Dust en Route to Texas, Florida
Jun 4 2025 // A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the biggest event of its kind this year as it heads toward the United States. The cloud extended some 2,000 miles (3,200...
Texas Wants to Kill a Cannabis Boom It Accidentally Helped Stoke
Jun 4 2025 // Texas is on the cusp of banning all recreational THC products after lawmakers passed a bill to reverse the unintended effects of hemp laws that led to a boom in shops selling gummies, joints, vapes and drinks that create a...
Texas Lawmakers Pass Legislation to Improve Wildfire Preparedness
Jun 3 2025 // Texas lawmakers approved a series of bills this year that aim to better prepare Texas for wildfires and to mitigate their damage. The legislation includes a study on wildfire risk zones, increasing funding for rural...
Doritos, M&Ms Could Be Forced to Include Warning Labels in Texas
Jun 3 2025 // A Texas bill on the verge of becoming law would require labels on packaged food from Skittles to Mountain Dew that warn about ingredients “not recommended for human consumption” by other countries. Texas Senate...
Texas Lawmakers Spike Bills to Study, Restrict PFAS
Jun 2 2025 // FORT WORTH — Rising public concern in Texas over PFAS, or “forever chemicals” linked to cancer, infertility and immune disorders sparked lawmakers to file half a dozen bills to study the chemicals, regulate...
Texas House Advances Bill to Allow Homes on Smaller Lots
May 30 2025 // The Texas House gave a thumbs Wednesday to a bill allowing smaller homes on smaller lots in Texas’ biggest cities, part of a broad push by state lawmakers to put a dent in the state’s high home prices. But the...
Texas Wants Its Own Film Industry, and Some Creative Control
May 28 2025 // Taylor Sheridan calls his 2016 thriller Hell or High Water a love poem to Texas, but to film it, he had to go to New Mexico. The movie tracks brothers-turned-bank-robbers through West Texas oil country as they try to save...
Texas Likely to Expand Medical Marijuana Program as Hemp Ban Looms
May 28 2025 // The Texas Senate advanced a bill Tuesday that will expand the conditions eligible for the state’s medical marijuana program, including chronic pain and Crohn’s disease, and allow for vaporized and aerosol...
COVU Acquires Texas’ Uno Insurance Services
May 23 2025 // COVU, Inc., an AI-native customer servicing platform for the insurance industry announced the acquisition of Uno Insurance Services, a fast-growing Texas-based agency with a stronghold in Houston’s Spanish-speaking...
The Biggest US Oil Field Is at Risk of Poisonous Water Leaks, Texas Warns
May 23 2025 // Texas regulators are warning that wastewater from fracking in the biggest US oil basin is causing a “widespread” increase in underground pressure — a development that risks hindering crude output and harming...
Texas Stock Exchange CEO Sees State Muscling In on NYC, Delaware
May 19 2025 // The head of the upstart Texas Stock Exchange said the state is making a serious play to reshape the US financial landscape, using new pro-business laws and a proposed ban on trading taxes to take on longtime power centers...
Texas Sweetens Pitch to CEOs, Boards With New State Protections
May 16 2025 // Texas is trying to entice more companies to ditch Delaware and incorporate in the state, just like Tesla Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. did last year at the behest of Elon Musk. Governor Greg Abbott is...
Tesla’s Robotaxi Launch in Texas Faces Scrutiny Over Potential Accident Risks
May 15 2025 // Federal safety regulators have asked Elon Musk’s car company to explain how its driverless taxis will avoid causing accidents when they hit the road in Texas next month before a national “robotaxi” launch...
Sweltering Heat Wave Hits US From Dakotas to Texas
May 15 2025 // Sweltering heat more commonly seen in the throes of summer than in the spring was making an unwelcome visit this week to a large portion of the U.S. – from the Dakotas to Texas and other parts of the South – and...
Texas AG Secures $60M Judgment in Pollution Case
May 14 2025 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton last week announced a judgment of more than $60 million against David Polston and his companies, Inland Environmental and Remediation, Inland Recycling, and Boundary Ventures, for...
Texas Bill That Limits Spread of ‘Forever Chemicals’ Misses Key Deadline
May 14 2025 // A bill aimed at limiting the spread of toxic chemicals on Texas farmland has hit a political wall — missing a key deadline that decreases its likelihood of passage this session. House Bill 1674, introduced by Rep. Helen...
