Latest Texas Headlines

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Fermi Orders Four Big Nuclear Reactors in Texas

Oct 29 2025 // Fermi Inc. has signed deals to begin production of four big nuclear-power reactors that would be used for a private data center grid campus in the Texas Panhandle.Shares rose as much as 9% after the announcement and a slew...

Lawsuit Leads to Surrender of Texas Physician’s License over Gender-Affirming Care

Oct 29 2025 // A Dallas pediatrician has surrendered her medical license, a year after becoming the first target of a law that banned providing gender-transitioning hormones to minors.Last October, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed...

Texas Sues Tylenol Makers J&J and Kenvue, Alleging They Hid Drug’s Autism Risks

Oct 28 2025 // The makers of Tylenol, Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N and Kenvue KVUE.N, were sued on Tuesday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who accused them of knowingly hiding the drug’s links to autism and attention deficit...

AM Best Assigns Credit Rating to Texas’ Dallas Specialty

Oct 27 2025 // AM Best has assigned a Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and a Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” (Excellent) to Dallas Specialty Insurance Company (Dallas Specialty), based in Dallas, Texas. The...

Cards Against Humanity and SpaceX Reach Settlement in Texas Land Dispute

Oct 22 2025 // SpaceX has settled a lawsuit filed by the maker of the popular party game Cards Against Humanity over accusations that Elon Musk’s rocket company trespassed and damaged a plot of land the card company owns in...

Plan to Pump Billions of Gallons From East Texas Appears on Hold

Oct 22 2025 // An East Texas groundwater conservation district is negotiating a legal path that would pause a plan to pump billions of gallons of water out of the region.The Neches & Trinity Valleys Groundwater Conservation District...

Texas Residents to Vote on $20B Package to Secure State’s Water Supply

Oct 20 2025 // LONGVIEW — In this part of Texas, residents stock up on bottled water in between boil notices. It’s part of life in a place where water pipes are old, corroded and falling apart.In the High Plains, near Lubbock,...

Meta Building New Gigawatt-Sized Data Center in Texas

Oct 17 2025 // Meta Platforms Inc. is building a new gigawatt-sized data center in Texas to advance its artificial intelligence efforts, the latest in a string of significant investments by the company as it looks to keep pace in the...

Texas Legislature Forms Committees to Investigate July Deadly Floods

Oct 16 2025 // Top Republicans in the Texas Legislature have announced the creation of committees tasked with “getting to the bottom of” the July flooding that killed more than 130 people, including 25 young girls and two...

Texas Ag Commissioner at Odds with USDA Over Screwworm Control Methods

Oct 15 2025 // USDA slaps down Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller over New World ScrewwormKate McGee and Berenice Garcia, The Texas Tribune October 14, 2025 Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is trading barbs with the Trump...

Alliant Expands Transportation Risk and Cross-Border Expertise in Texas

Oct 15 2025 // Alliant Insurance Services acquired Texas Insurance Agency in Laredo, one of the U.S.’s busiest international trade ports, specializing in cross-border trucking risk and insurance; as well as McAfee Insurance Agency...

Camp Owners in Texas Fear Closure Due to New Safety Regulations

Oct 14 2025 // Texas camp owners on Friday urged the state health agency to give them more time and flexibility on costly new safety requirements, saying they could be forced to close by next summer.“We support the goal of making...

Texas Water Crisis Threatens Booming Industrial Hotspot for Exxon, Koch

Oct 14 2025 // Water shortages in South Texas are posing major risks to a fast-growing industrial hub that’s crucial to President Donald Trump’s twin goals of dominating global energy markets and slashing trade...

Higginbotham Acquires Texas’ Stephens Insurance Services

Oct 10 2025 // Higginbotham has acquired Lubbock, Texas-based Stephens Insurance Services, a benefits specialist. The collaboration pairs on-the-ground relationships with added resources to enhance combined service offerings across West...

Texas AG Threatens Action Against Chinese Company for Potential Privacy Violations

Oct 9 2025 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced he has opened an investigation against TP-Link Systems Inc. (“TP Link”), a manufacturer of networking equipment, for potentially aiding the Chinese government in...

Rural Texas Residents Struggle with Noise Pollution from Nearby Crypto Facility

Oct 9 2025 // Danny Lakey and his wife have spent countless evenings sitting on rocking chairs on their front porch, watching the sun slowly dip behind the cows grazing on their neighbor’s ranch.It was the calm country life they...

Exxon Delays Planned Plastic Plant on Texas Coast

Oct 8 2025 // Exxon Mobil will postpone its plans for a large new plastics production plant on the Gulf coast, according to the company. Construction was initially planned to begin next year on the $10 billion facility in rural Calhoun...

DOL Awards $890K to Texas for Disaster Recovery Jobs After July Storms

Oct 8 2025 // The U.S. Department of Labor announced the award of $890,000 in grant funding to Texas to support disaster-relief jobs and employment training services for residents suffering from the aftermath of severe storms.On July 2,...

New MGU Hill Country Underwriters Launches for Artisan Contractors in Texas

Oct 7 2025 // Hill Country Underwriters, a managing general underwriter (MGU) providing casualty insurance for artisan contractors, launches today with a General Liability and Inland Marine product for artisan trade contractors in...

Texas Stock Exchange Receives Federal Approval

Oct 7 2025 // The Texas Stock Exchange last week crossed its latest hurdle toward becoming a direct competitor to the dominance of the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq.The announcement that the U.S. Securities and Exchange...