Latest Texas Headlines
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Rural Texas Hospitals Scramble to Respond to Measles Surge
Mar 10 2025 // Five years ago, Melanie Richburg used a roll of duct tape, a HEPA filter and a portable fan to draw contaminated air out of a hospital room where patients were tested for the coronavirus. Now, as the state’s largest...
Texas PR Specialist Sues Blake Lively for Defamation
Mar 10 2025 // A Texas crisis communications specialist has sued Blake Lively for defamation after the actor pulled him into her legal fight with co-star and director Justin Baldoni over their film, “It Ends With Us.” Jed...
Supreme Court Hears Texas Nuclear Waste Storage Dispute
Mar 5 2025 // The U.S. Supreme Court was hearing arguments on Wednesday on whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license nuclear waste storage facilities amid objections brought by the states of Texas and New...
Texas Reports 13 New Measles Cases as CDC Arrives in State
Mar 5 2025 // Texas reported 13 new cases of measles Tuesday even as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sending a team of epidemiologists and doctors to help the state with the growing outbreak. The state has now...
Texas Beekeepers Facing Soaring Bee Losses, Threatening Agriculture Industry
Mar 4 2025 // Since starting their beekeeping business southwest of San Antonio in late 2019, the Wheeler family has aimed to produce about 3,000 bee colonies each year, many of which are used to pollinate crops like watermelons and...
Texas Lawsuit Alleges GEICO Raises Premiums Despite Accident Forgiveness Promise
Mar 4 2025 // A class action lawsuit filed in Texas alleges GEICO doesn’t abide by its Accident Forgiveness program when a driver with an unblemished record gets into a first, at-fault accident. Texas resident Christopher Cude...
Drake Settles With Texas-Based iHeartMedia Over ‘Not Like Us’
Mar 3 2025 // Drake has reached a settlement with Texas-based iHeartMedia in his ongoing legal dispute over Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us,” according to court records. In November, Drake filed a legal...
Critical Fire Conditions to Grip Texas’ Oil-Rich Permian Basin
Mar 3 2025 // Critical to extreme fire conditions are expected to affect more than 2.7 million people across the Southwest, lower Great Plains and Texas, including the oil-rich Permian Basin. A large low-pressure system is forecast to...
Trial Begins in Texas Pipeline Company’s Lawsuit Over Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
Feb 28 2025 // An attorney for a Texas pipeline company said Wednesday at trial that he will prove various Greenpeace entities coordinated delays and disruptions of a controversial oil pipeline’s construction in North Dakota, and...
Texas Lawmakers Introduce Legislation to Address Wildfire Risks and Ignition Sources
Feb 28 2025 // A year after devastating wildfires engulfed the Panhandle, killing three people and burning millions of acres, Texas lawmakers have filed a slate of legislation aimed at mitigating the risks and damage of future...
Texas Panhandle Town Grapples with Recovery One Year After Devastating Wildfire
Feb 27 2025 // Past the terracotta canyons and sloping hills in the Texas Panhandle is a colorful, small town center. A vibrant mural of the town’s name greets visitors, the yellow and blue paint from a historic motel can be seen...
First Measles Death Reported in West Texas Outbreak
Feb 26 2025 // A school-aged child has died in Lubbock from measles, the first death reported in an ongoing outbreak that has infected more than 120 people in West Texas since January, Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed...
Texas Man Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison for Multi-Million Dollar Insurance Fraud
Feb 24 2025 // A Texas man was sentenced last week to more than 13 years in prison for constructing a $5 million insurance fraud scheme, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Texas announced. Jordan Ford, 32, was charged...
Texas Bill Would Allow Vacant Offices to be Converted Into Dwellings
Feb 21 2025 // As Texas’ major urban areas grapple with a glut of vacant offices, state lawmakers may make it easier to transform empty office and commercial space into dwellings. A bill by state Sen. Bryan Hughes, a Mineola...
Tesla Cited by U.S. Regulators Over Worker’s Death in Texas
Feb 20 2025 // Federal regulators have cited Tesla TSLA.O for violating workplace safety rules in connection with the electrocution of a worker last summer at its Austin, Texas, auto-manufacturing plant. The U.S. Department of Labor...
Record-Breaking Cold to Slam Central US and Test Texas Grid
Feb 19 2025 // Winter storms and record-breaking cold will descend on the central and southern US this week, snarling transportation and putting the vulnerable Texas power grid to yet another test. Temperatures are forecast to drop to...
Texas Braces for Freezing Weather With Wildfire and Flood Risks
Feb 18 2025 // Several varieties of extreme weather are forecast for Texas this week as state officials monitor rising wildfire risks in West Texas and possible flash flooding in East Texas before frigid cold settles in across the state...
Texas County Approves Election for New City Starbase Near SpaceX Site
Feb 14 2025 // A Texas county on Wednesday approved holding an election sought by SpaceX that would let residents living around billionaire Elon Musk ‘s company decide whether to formally create a new city called Starbase. The...
Texas Power Grid Says State’s Energy Demand May Exceed Supply in 2026
Feb 14 2025 // Texas’ main grid operator on Thursday forecast that the state’s growing demand for power could surpass its available energy supply beginning in summer 2026. In a report outlining potential supply and demand...
Measles Outbreak Reported in Small West Texas County
Feb 12 2025 // Fifteen measles cases — mostly in school-aged children — have been confirmed in a small county in West Texas with one of the highest rates of vaccine exemptions in the state. South Plains Public Health District...
