Best Read Texas Headlines
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#1 Texas Homeowners Question Whether to Rebuild After Floods
Aug 12 2025 // Brian Keeper doesn’t remember exactly when his family began spending holidays in Hunt, an unincorporated town on the banks of the Guadalupe River where they’d camp, swim, and fish. Sometimes they caught so many...
#2 Along Texas’ Guadalupe River, Several Summer Camps Are in Flood Zones
Aug 13 2025 // The all-girls Christian summer camp where 27 people, most of them children, were swept away and killed by the July 4 flooding in Kerr County was just one of 13 summer camps along the Guadalupe River built on land prone to...
#3 Camp Mystic Deaths After Floods Darken a Cherished Texas Tradition
Jul 22 2025 // Camp Mystic was the totemic rite of passage for girls from establishment families in the American South: Lyndon Johnson sent his daughters there, Laura Bush worked there as a counselor years before becoming First Lady, and...
#4 Texas Embraces Second-Life EV Battery Innovation for Grid Stability
Aug 7 2025 // East of San Antonio in Bexar County, 500 electric vehicle batteries at the end of their automotive lives will soon be repurposed to provide energy storage for Texas’ electric grid, a California company, B2U Storage...
#5 Texas Economy Slowing Amid Trade Policies and Immigration Crackdown
Aug 15 2025 // All signs point to a slowdown of the Texas economy as job growth slows, construction declines and inflation ticks up, according to a Monday report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The report on the Fed’s recent...
#6 Texas Senate Passes Bills Aimed at Improving Flood Safety
Aug 19 2025 // The Texas Senate quickly got to work Monday by passing several bills on the chamber’s desk as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s agenda for the second special session of the year for the Legislature, focusing first on...
#7 Texas Senate Passes Bill to Ban THC, Setting Up Showdown with House
Aug 4 2025 // The Texas Senate on Friday approved its second attempt to ban hemp-derived THC, setting up a showdown with the House, where hemp industry members say they’ll be getting more support. Senate Bill 5 by Sen. Charles...
#8 Texas Pecan Farmers Fight to Save Water Supply
Nov 1 2024 // FORT STOCKTON — Zachary Swick plucked a pecan from one of the 78,000 trees at a sprawling West Texas farm — a rare sight in the desert known for oil rigs and pump jacks. He peeled away the pecan’s layers, leaving...
#9 Toxic Shale Drilling Wastewater Threatens Top Oil Fields, Texas Agency Warns
Aug 11 2025 // A Texas agency overseeing 13 million acres of state land is warning that toxic waste fluid from shale drilling threatens to contaminate oil wells in North America’s most prolific crude basin. The General Land Office...
#10 Texas Lawmakers Fail to Reach Agreement on THC Ban
Sep 4 2025 // The Texas House gaveled out of the second special session late Wednesday, leaving behind Senate Bill 6, which would have broadly banned consumable hemp products with any “detectable amount of any cannabinoid.”...
#11 A Texas Congressman Is Helping Musk Pitch $760M Tunnel Project for Flooding
Aug 29 2025 // The devastating flooding in Houston caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 killed dozens of people, inundated hundreds of thousands of homes and left the community desperate for a solution. Since then, local flood experts have...
#12 Texas Cotton Industry Struggles as Synthetic Fibers Go Mainstream
Jul 28 2025 // For decades, the cotton industry has long been considered king in the Texas agriculture world. However, a shift has left it standing on shaky ground. In the last few years — as cotton producers struggled with low market...
#13 Wastewater Is Polluting Rivers and Streams in Central Texas
Apr 29 2025 // Margo Denke set out to rally the town when she learned that a Christian youth camp planned to build a wastewater treatment plant and discharge its effluent into the pristine Hill Country creek that ran through her small...
#14 Texas Crime Labs Say They Need More Resources for a THC Ban
Aug 14 2025 // As Texas lawmakers debate whether to regulate or ban THC products, officials with the state’s crime labs say they don’t have the resources currently to enforce whatever law is passed. “From a crime lab...
#15 Texas Farmers Say Forever Chemicals in Fertilizer Poisoned Their Land
Dec 2 2024 // JOHNSON COUNTY — Tony Coleman recognizes the signs all too well. A cow drools strings of saliva. Then it starts to limp, each step slower. Then it grows stiff. Then it’s quick. There’s nothing to be done. The...
#16 Cultivated Meat Companies Sue Texas Over Its Lab-Grown Meat Ban
Sep 5 2025 // Two cultivated meat companies have filed a lawsuit against officials in Texas over the law that bans the sales of lab-grown meat in the state for two years. California-based companies UPSIDE Foods, which makes cultivated...
#17 Texas Is Warning Health Providers to Stop Mailing Abortion Pills to State
Aug 21 2025 // Texas officials are warning health care providers to stop sending abortion pills into the state or risk fines and prosecution, as Attorney General Ken Paxton seeks to halt the flow of medicine that’s circumventing...
#18 Texas Shows How Trump’s Anti-Green Moves Threaten a Red Economy
Aug 19 2025 // Deep-red Texas needs to build power plants at an astonishing speed and scale to keep its economy humming. President Donald Trump just made that much harder. So many data centers, crypto-mining operations and factories are...
#19 Texas Counties Have Little Power to Stop Building in Flood-Prone Areas
Jul 9 2025 // Camp Mystic, the private summer camp that now symbolizes the deadly Central Texas floods, sat on a tract of land known to be at high risk for a devastating flood. Nearly 1.3 million Texas homes are similarly situated in...
#20 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...
