Latest Texas Headlines
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Former Florida Broker and Texas Man Convicted in ACA Scheme That Paid $180M
Nov 19 2025 // A federal jury in south Florida this week convicted a formerly licensed insurance broker and the head of a marketing firm for their roles in a years-long scheme to fraudulently enroll homeless people in Affordable Care Act...
Firefighters Battle Blaze at Texas Decommissioned Power Plant
Nov 18 2025 // Firefighters in southeastern Texas were battling a blaze at a decommissioned power plant that sent large plumes of smoke into the air on Sunday and local officials warned area residents to avoid the smoke. The fire broke...
Trump Administration Considers Moving FEMA to Texas, Report Says
Nov 18 2025 // The Trump administration is weighing whether to relocate the Federal Emergency Management Agency to Texas and tap the state’s top emergency official to lead it, Politico reported Monday, citing two former senior FEMA...
Chevron Picks Texas for First AI Data Center Power Project
Nov 14 2025 // Chevron Corp. chose West Texas as the site of its first project to provide natural gas-fired power to a data center, the beginning of a new line of business for the oil giant to capitalize on the boom in artificial...
Congressional THC Ban Threatens Texas’ $8 Billion Hemp Industry
Nov 14 2025 // As part of the spending deal to end the government shutdown, federal lawmakers approved a provision cracking down on hemp products containing THC, restoring a ban Texas Republicans sought to impose earlier this year. The...
Texas Voters Rank Rising Homeowners’ Insurance Costs as Top Concern
Nov 12 2025 // The rising cost of homeowners’ insurance has emerged as of the top key issues in the minds of Texas voters, according to a recent survey conducted by Texas 2036. When asked about the next election, Texas voters...
Alliant Acquires Texas’ Highpoint
Nov 12 2025 // Alliant Insurance Services has expanded its footprint in Texas with the strategic acquisition of Highpoint Insurance Group, a multi-line broker located in Friendswood. Highpoint Insurance Group, with 44 employees, will...
Texas Sues Roblox Over Alleged Exposure of Children to Sexually Explicit Content
Nov 10 2025 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the online gaming platform Roblox for allegedly exposing children to sexually explicit content and exploitation, the latest in a flurry of lawsuits from his office aimed at big...
Texas Workers’ Compensation System Reports $12M Loss in 2024, Report Finds
Nov 10 2025 // The Texas workers’ compensation system saw a modest $12 million loss in 2024 as insurers reported an increase in direct losses paid and overall, according to a report compiled by the Insurance Council Texas...
Texas Asks Court to Halt Kenvue Tylenol Marketing, Dividend
Nov 7 2025 // Texas officials have asked a state court judge to temporarily block Kenvue Inc. from marketing Tylenol as safe for pregnant women, and from issuing a dividend, escalating the company’s legal woes just days after...
People Moves: Texas Mutual Names Sangal as COO
Nov 6 2025 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company, the state’s leading provider of workers’ compensation insurance, recently announced Prateek Sangal as its chief operating officer, effective October 20. In this role, Sangal will...
Texas Voters Approve $20B Investment in Water Supply
Nov 5 2025 // Texas is poised to make the largest investment in its water supply in the state’s 180-year history after voters on Tuesday approved Proposition 4, which authorizes $20 billion to be spent on water projects over the...
Texas Courier Service to Pay $800K in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Nov 4 2025 // Trinity Couriers Inc., a courier service based in San Antonio, pled guilty to fraudulently obtaining workers’ compensation insurance coverage, the Texas Department of Insurance announced. The company agreed to pay...
Judge Dismisses Texas Challenge to New York Abortion Shield Law
Nov 3 2025 // A New York judge dismissed a legal challenge Friday from Texas seeking to enforce a more than $100,000 civil judgment against a doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to a Dallas-area woman in an early test of the...
People Moves: Texas State Office of Risk Management Names Hays as Executive Director
Oct 31 2025 // The Texas State Office of Risk Management Board of Directors announced Sara Hays as the newly appointed Executive Director. Hays joins the Office after many years of state service, including Chief of Staff for two state...
Wildfire Forces Rural Community in Southern Texas to Evacuate
Oct 31 2025 // Thick smoke blanketed a rural community in southern Texas and many residents were ordered to evacuate as firefighters worked to contain a blaze Wednesday evening, officials said. The Mill Fire in Gregory, Texas, about 150...
Texas Backs Permian Gas-Fired Power Plant With $1.1B Loan as AI Demand Soars
Oct 30 2025 // Texas is backing a proposed Permian Basin power plant fueled by natural gas with a $1.1 billion low-interest loan, the largest such project under a state program aimed to shore up supplies after widespread blackouts in...
Fermi Orders Four Big Nuclear Reactors in Texas
Oct 29 2025 // Fermi Inc. has signed deals to begin production of four big nuclear-power reactors that would be used for a private data center grid campus in the Texas Panhandle. Shares rose as much as 9% after the announcement and a...
Lawsuit Leads to Surrender of Texas Physician’s License over Gender-Affirming Care
Oct 29 2025 // A Dallas pediatrician has surrendered her medical license, a year after becoming the first target of a law that banned providing gender-transitioning hormones to minors. Last October, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton...
Texas Sues Tylenol Makers J&J and Kenvue, Alleging They Hid Drug’s Autism Risks
Oct 28 2025 // The makers of Tylenol, Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N and Kenvue KVUE.N, were sued on Tuesday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who accused them of knowingly hiding the drug’s links to autism and attention deficit...
