Best Read Texas Headlines
Headlines from our Texas Topic Page with the most time spent reading.
#1 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...
#2 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...
#3 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...
#4 Study Links Fracking Wastewater Injection to Surface Blowouts in West Texas Oil Wells
Aug 7 2024 // Fracking wastewater, injected underground for permanent disposal, traveled 12 miles through geological faults before bursting to the surface through a previously plugged West Texas oil well in 2022, according to a new...
#5 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...
#6 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...
#7 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...
#8 Texas Medical Marijuana Industry to Push for Hemp Age Restrictions
Jul 1 2025 // Texas’ medical marijuana dispensaries entered into this year’s legislative session with a two-prong strategy to expand: to loosen the state’s rules on their industry that has made the program largely...
#9 No Alerts Heard in Deadly Texas Flash Flood as 161 Still Missing
Jul 9 2025 // In the early hours of July 4, the only sound many of the vacationers along the banks of the Guadalupe River would have heard was pounding rain and thunder. They didn’t get any official warning of the rapidly rising...
#10 Texas Lt. Gov. Patrick Clashes With Gov. Abbott Over Veto of THC Ban
Jun 24 2025 // Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the powerful head of the Texas Senate, sharply rebuked Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday for vetoing his top legislative priority — a ban on all THC products — and dug in his heels against the...
#11 Texas’ Push to Meet Power Demand Could Spark Uranium Mining Revival
Dec 9 2024 // In the old ranchlands of South Texas, dormant uranium mines are coming back online. A collection of new ones hope to start production soon, extracting radioactive fuel from the region’s shallow aquifers. Many more...
#12 Harris County Officials Say Texas Law Limits Settlements Against Polluters
Oct 10 2024 // It wasn’t immediately clear what chemicals erupted into the air from the Channelview fire. The most anyone knew was that the large plume of black smoke billowing across the late afternoon sky — visible for miles...
#13 How Texas Weakened Its Own Air Pollution Monitoring Team
Oct 8 2024 // When disaster affects the sprawling industrial complexes of Texas, the state’s environmental authority often posts pictures online of its white vans patrolling public streets, verifying the local air is safe to...
#14 Space X Workers in South Texas Approve Measure to Incorporate Area as a New City
May 5 2025 // Elon Musk’s wish to create his own city just came true. On Saturday, voters living around SpaceX’s rocket testing and launch facility in South Texas approved a measure to incorporate the area as a new city....
#15 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...
#16 Deadly Floods Reinforce Texas’ Challenge as Crisis Epicenter
Jul 7 2025 // Before dawn Friday morning, city manager Dalton Rice went for a jog along the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas. He finished his run around 4 a.m. as a light rain set in. An hour later, he began receiving emergency...
#17 Texas Officials Under Scrutiny Over Lack of Warning Systems in Deadly Flood
Jul 7 2025 // Before heading to bed before the Fourth of July holiday, Christopher Flowers checked the weather while staying at a friend’s house along the Guadalupe River. Nothing in the forecast alarmed him. Hours later, he was...
#18 Pressure Mounts on Texas Regulator as ‘Zombie’ Oil Wells Spill Toxic Fluids
Aug 15 2024 // PECOS COUNTY, Texas – On a sprawling ranch in Pecos County in late July, oil well control specialist Hawk Dunlap used a backhoe to uncover an abandoned or so-called zombie well that had sprung back to life despite being...
#19 West Texas Town Endures Another Well Blowout, Putting Residents at Risk
Oct 11 2024 // TOYAH — After a restless night of sleep, Elida Machuca texted her neighbor, searching for answers. The air around her house in this West Texas town stunk of rotten eggs. “Last night, about 1 a.m., it was so bad we...
#20 Texas Jury to Decide if a Student’s Parents are Liable in Deadly School Shooting
Aug 19 2024 // DALLAS (AP) — An attorney for the parents of a Texas student accused of killing 10 people in a 2018 school shooting near Houston told trial jurors Friday that they didn’t know their son would have a psychotic...
