All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 21 2025 // The Texas Senate on Wednesday passed a state ban on all forms of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, advancing a priority of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to crack down on the state’s booming consumable hemp market six years after...
Mar 20 2025 // The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) released a second update on its ongoing investigation into the fatal hydrogen sulfide release that occurred on October 10, 2024, at the PEMEX Deer Park Refinery...
Mar 20 2025 // Greenpeace has been ordered to pay more than $660 million in damages to Energy Transfer Partners LP after the Texas-based oil company accused the environmental group of defamation in connection with protests against an oil...
Mar 19 2025 // CRC Group, an independent wholesale specialty insurance distributor in North America, announced the acquisition of Risk Transfer Partners (RTP), a casualty-focused wholesale brokerage business. This strategic acquisition...
Mar 19 2025 // A Texas lawmaker is laying the groundwork to create a statewide system that connects all first responders and government agencies to the same network. The proposal comes as a possible solution to fix communication issues...
Mar 18 2025 // As Oklahomans assessed the devastation from wildfires that whipped across the state, damaging or destroying hundreds of homes, officials in both Oklahoma and Texas warned of an increased risk of fire danger in the coming...
Mar 17 2025 // A man was charged Friday with intoxication manslaughter after five people were killed and several injured in a late-night wreck in Austin, Texas, that involved over a dozen vehicles on Interstate 35, authorities...
Mar 17 2025 // The Texas Department of Insurance’s Fraud Unit contributed to investigations landing nearly $58 million in court-ordered restitution last year.According to TDI, more than 20 TDI investigators stationed around the...
Mar 14 2025 // A group led by Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff, is claiming victory after it got a commitment from Texas Tech’s medical school not to consider race in admission decisions, which...
Mar 13 2025 // An upstart stock exchange based in Texas has poached top talent from its big-name rivals as it prepares its push into the $11 trillion exchange-traded fund world.Cboe Global Market’s former head of exchange-traded...
Mar 13 2025 // Several buildings at Texas Tech University in Lubbock were evacuated Wednesday night after officials said an explosion in a manhole near a substation caused multiple fires that could be seen emerging from underground...
Mar 13 2025 // A year after Elon Musk urged U.S. companies to abandon Delaware as their legal home and follow Tesla to Texas, legislators in the two states on Wednesday considered bills in an unusual battle over corporate law that...
Mar 12 2025 // Authorities in Texas reported 25 new measles cases over the last five days, bringing the state’s total to 223 as the outbreak continues to spread.Authorities in Texas, the hardest-hit state with the first confirmed...
Mar 10 2025 // A federal judge has awarded nearly $2 million in damages as part of a civil lawsuit after concluding an FBI agent was negligent when he fatally shot a kidnapped Texas man during a botched rescue attempt in 2018.The family...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 sued...