Latest Texas Headlines
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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...
Labor Department Suing USPS Over Fired Texas Worker Who Reported Injury
May 13 2025 // The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service for what it says is the wrongful termination of an employee who fell while delivering mail and reported the work-related injury. An...
Texas Insurance Fraudster Given Prison Sentence and $350K Fine
May 13 2025 // A federal judge sentenced a McAllen woman who reportedly helped commit property and title fraud schemes to 24 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Chief U.S. District Judge Randy Crane also ordered...
Texas Woman Sentenced for Disaster Relief Fraud Scheme
May 12 2025 // A Texas woman has been sentenced for conspiracy to commit wire fraud which resulted in approximately $620,000 in losses, U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei announced last week. Cora Chantail Custard, a 35-year-old who had...
Google Settles $1.4B Lawsuit With Texas Over Data Privacy Violations
May 12 2025 // Google will pay $1.4 billion to Texas to settle claims the company collected users’ data without permission, the state’s attorney general announced Friday. Attorney General Ken Paxton described the settlement...
Patriot Growth Partners With Texas’ Ladd Gardner Aviation Insurance
May 9 2025 // Patriot Growth Insurance Services announce its partnership with Ladd Gardner Aviation Insurance (LGA), an aviation insurance agency based in Addison, Texas. Founded in 2007 by aviation enthusiast and industry veteran, Ladd...
Texas Legislators Seek Solutions to Rising Home Insurance Rates
May 9 2025 // Texas lawmakers hope to rein in homeowners’ rising insurance bills even as they acknowledge there’s only so much they can do to tackle costs. Legislators have advanced bills to limit how much insurance...
Many US Cities Are Sinking. But In Texas, It’s Worse
May 8 2025 // Cities across the US are sinking,and the problem is most pronounced in Texas, according to a new study. The research, which examined 28 cities and was published in science journal Nature on Thursday, found all of them were...
Texas Bill Would Put Restraints on Businesses Wanting to Tap Into Energy Grid
May 7 2025 // exas will need a lot more energy in the future. Driven largely by demand from businesses such as data centers and the oil and gas industry, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the state’s grid operator,...
Benefit Advisors Network Adds Texas’ Carroll Insurance as New Member
May 6 2025 // Benefit Advisors Network (BAN), an international network of progressive and visionary employee benefit brokers and consulting firms from across the United States and Canada, announced Houston, Texas-based Carroll Insurance...
