All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 10 2025 // Texas refineries are bracing for an onslaught of cold, snow and freezing rain as the US South’s first major winter storm sweeps in during what’s projected to be a frigid month.While temperatures in the upcoming...
Jan 9 2025 // Texas farmers tepidly celebrated last month after Congress barely managed to extend a package of laws meant to aid the nation’s agriculture industry and feed low-income Americans.The clock is now ticking for federal...
Jan 8 2025 // Digital car insurer Clearcover announced the launch of Clearcover General Agency to serve the non-standard auto insurance market in Texas. Policies will be underwritten by Old American County Mutual Fire Insurance Company,...
Jan 8 2025 // Flight cancellations are already piling up as a winter storm bears down on Texas and the US South, bringing snow and ice that could coat power lines and trigger blackouts.As of 7:30 a.m. in New York, at least 169 flights...
Jan 7 2025 // A winter storm is poised to pummel Texas and the US South later this week, putting the region at risk of blackouts and travel mayhem.About 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 centimeters) of snow and ice will fall across southern...
Jan 7 2025 // Twenty miles outside Corpus Christi, Texas — an area so dry the local water company distributes shower timers at high school football games — the world’s richest man is nearly done building a lithium refinery...
Jan 7 2025 // Texas has seen surging interest from companies hoping to bury carbon dioxide in its oilfields, putting the state at the vanguard of a government-subsidized program to fight climate change.But pumping CO2 into the ground...
Jan 6 2025 // Law firm Clyde & Co announced its merger with Dallas law firm Tillman Batchelor LLP. Mark Tillman and Colin Batchelor have joined Clyde & Co’s Dallas office as partners and will be joined by their team of six...
Dec 30 2024 // HOUSTON (AP) — A strong storm system threatened to whip up tornadoes in parts of the U.S. Southeast on Sunday, a day after severe weather claimed at least two lives as twisters touched down in Texas and...
Dec 27 2024 // Inszone Insurance Services announced the acquisition of Roten & Company Insurance, a longstanding family-owned and operated insurance agency based in San Antonio, Texas. This acquisition strengthens Inszone’s...
Dec 27 2024 // Most Texas drivers will no longer be required to have their cars pass an annual safety exam after state lawmakers removed the rule from Texas code.Texas is one of 15 states that mandate annual inspections for noncommercial...
Dec 26 2024 // A U.S. Department of Labor workplace safety investigation has found a Frisco, Texas contractor repeatedly exposed workers to serious hazards by sending them into unprotected trenches without providing a means of escape.The...
Dec 23 2024 // Two Union Pacific employees were killed and three people were injured when a freight train collided with a tractor-trailer and derailed in a small West Texas city, authorities said Thursday.The train derailed around 5 p.m....
Dec 23 2024 // SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A teacher at a San Antonio-area day care was killed and another employee and five toddlers were injured when a parent’s car accelerated into another vehicle in the parking lot and both vehicles...
Dec 23 2024 // Johnson County’s newest state representative, Helen Kerwin, R-Cleburne, filed her first bill Friday targeting an environmental problem that has struck her county: PFAS contamination in sewage sludge-based...
Dec 19 2024 // Texas property management companies Castle Hills Master Association Inc., Bright Realty LLC, Bright Industries LLC, and Bright Executive Services LLC will pay $55,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability...
Dec 19 2024 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Austin, Texas-based Howe Insurance Group LLC, dba DMc Insurance Partners. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. DMc Insurance Partners is a personal...
Dec 18 2024 // Highstreet Insurance Partners announced today its acquisition of Collum Insurance Group, LLC based in Richardson, Texas. Along with Collum’s 35 years of personal lines expertise, this transaction adds an additional...
Dec 18 2024 // Texas Governor Greg Abbott has a new ambition for the Lone Star State: surpassing France as one of the world’s largest economies.Abbott predicted that economic output in Texas would soon exceed that of the struggling...
Dec 18 2024 // Texas agencies reported 252 new cases of groundwater contamination during 2023 in the Texas Groundwater Protection Committee annual report.The latest report compiles 2,870 open cases of groundwater contamination, some of...