All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
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 Mayela...
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...
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 as...
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...
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 companies...
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...
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,...
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...
May 5 2025 // TWFG, Inc., a high-growth insurance distribution company, announced the acquisition of two agencies, one in Texas and one in North Carolina, and the hiring of Denise Davis as Vice President of Retail Operations. Denise...
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. Soon...
May 5 2025 // A former Friendswood, Texas insurance agent turned himself into authorities over charges that he fraudulently brokered insurance policies, the Friendswood Police Department announced.Edgar Peralta of Edgar Peralta with...
May 2 2025 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that its board of directors voted unanimously to approve a $330 million general dividend distribution in 2025.Texas Mutual, the state’s top provider of workers’...
May 2 2025 // At AM Specialty Insurance Co., Nishad Lad, head of data and software development, has been placed at the forefront of transforming the Dallas, Texas-based excess and surplus carrier’s claims processing with new...
May 1 2025 // Despite federal policy uncertainty stunting growth prospects, US clean hydrogen industry leaders at the BloombergNEF summit see one bright spot: Texas.President Donald Trump’s tariffs are impacting the industry as...
Apr 30 2025 // Three workers were killed and two were injured when a section of scaffolding collapsed early Tuesday at a liquefied natural gas plant that Sempra is building in Texas.The two survivors at the Port Arthur LNG project were...
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...
Apr 29 2025 // A widely followed measure of Texas manufacturing activity weakened significantly as executives used words like “chaos” and “insanity” to describe the turmoil spurred by President Donald...