All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 9 2025 // Gov. Greg Abbott will soon issue an executive order to regulate THC and set a minimum age of 21 to purchase those products in Texas, according to three people who spoke with the governor’s office.The...
Sep 8 2025 // When news broke last Wednesday afternoon of a last-minute push to pass new, stricter regulations for consumable hemp products, the employees at Austin Vape & Smoke sprung into action.Zaquiri Hensen, a manager at the...
Sep 8 2025 // In the days and weeks following the death of his 9-year-old daughter, Lila, at Camp Mystic in the Texas Hill Country, Blake Bonner found himself wondering whether the tragedy was simply an unstoppable act of God, or if...
Sep 5 2025 // Two cultivated meat companies have filed a lawsuit against officials in Texas over the law that bans the sales of lab-grown meat in the state for two years.California-based companies UPSIDE Foods, which makes cultivated...
Sep 5 2025 // Insured losses exceeded $47.2 billion in Texas last year—a 4.2% increase over 2023, according to a new property and casualty market report from the state’s insurance council.Annual direct losses in Texas have now...
Sep 4 2025 // The Texas House gaveled out of the second special session late Wednesday, leaving behind Senate Bill 6, which would have broadly banned consumable hemp products with any “detectable amount of any cannabinoid.”...
Sep 4 2025 // River Valley Underwriters, Inc has announced that it will be acquiring the book of business from Patriot National Underwriters, Inc, as well as the current employees. The parties expect to complete the transaction...
Sep 3 2025 // Workers at the Texas Department of Transportation have begun responding to calls to remove debris and abandoned vehicles from West Texas roads and extinguish vehicle fires.They also change flat tires and jumpstart car...
Sep 3 2025 // A multi-vehicle crash Saturday on an East Texas interstate sent 17 injured people to area hospitals and shut down a major interstate for hours. None of the injuries appeared to be life threatening after the crash along...
Sep 2 2025 // AvonRisk, a national provider of risk management, claims administration, and managed care services, announced today that it has acquired AS&G Claims Administration, Inc., and Care Logic, Inc., a Houston, Texas-based...
Aug 29 2025 // The devastating flooding in Houston caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 killed dozens of people, inundated hundreds of thousands of homes and left the community desperate for a solution.Since then, local flood experts have...
Aug 28 2025 // For Donna Thomas, smokestacks are a typical sight from her home in Fort Bend County. Since she was a child, she has seen the coal and natural gas-powered W.A. Parish Generating Station puff clouds of haze during the day...
Aug 27 2025 // A serial arsonist in Lavaca County, Texas pleaded guilty to one count of felony vehicle arson and admitted to starting six hay bale fires dating to 2024, the Texas Department of Insurance announced this week. The...
Aug 26 2025 // A bill that would tighten how youth camps are penalized for safety deficiencies and that would diminish the industry’s influence on a state advisory committee has gained traction in the Legislature.While Senate Bill...
Aug 25 2025 // Cries for help came from the pitch-black woods, from rooftops and from attics that shifted unsteadily as the water rose. Firefighters and police raced to help, having little guidance on where or how. Top emergency leaders...
Aug 22 2025 // Nearly seven weeks ago on July 4, the Guadalupe River raged out of its banks and killed more than 130 people, including two teenage counselors and 25 young girls at Camp Mystic who had been asleep in their cabins before...
Aug 21 2025 // Texas officials are warning health care providers to stop sending abortion pills into the state or risk fines and prosecution, as Attorney General Ken Paxton seeks to halt the flow of medicine that’s circumventing...
Aug 20 2025 // Doug Cogan, of Cypress, Texas, has been elected to the Texas Mutual Insurance Company board of directors. He was elected at the company’s annual policyholder meeting. Cogan’s board terms for Texas Mutual, the...
Aug 19 2025 // The Texas Senate quickly got to work Monday by passing several bills on the chamber’s desk as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s agenda for the second special session of the year for the Legislature, focusing first on...
Aug 19 2025 // Deep-red Texas needs to build power plants at an astonishing speed and scale to keep its economy humming. President Donald Trump just made that much harder.So many data centers, crypto-mining operations and factories are...