The most viewed headlines from our Texas Topic Page over the last 30 days.
Dec 11 2025 // Bankrupt subprime auto dealer Tricolor Holdings is preparing to sue the company’s founder for allegedly masterminding a massive fraud that led to the company’s collapse into bankruptcy, according to a court...
Dec 12 2025 // Texas is about to deploy a potential solution to the oil industry’s toxic wastewater problem — but it’s a move that carries environmental risks of its own.State regulators are working to issue permits that...
Dec 1 2025 // The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles is implementing more stringent photo identification requirements for all vehicle registrations and renewals in an abrupt shift that could shut out undocumented residents from legally...
Dec 1 2025 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the state is investigating global fast-fashion retailer Shein US Services LLC Corporation and its affiliates for potential violations of Texas law related to unethical labor practices...
Dec 16 2025 // Confie announced the acquisition of TGS Insurance Agency, Inc., a Houston, Texas-based standard personal lines insurance agency.The acquisition advances Confie’s strategy to scale InsureOne into a leading national...
Dec 17 2025 // A drought in South Texas caused Moody’s Ratings to downgrade the city of Corpus Christi, which projects demand for water will outpace supply by the spring of 2027.The ratings company lowered the city of roughly...
Nov 26 2025 // When it rains here, West Texans brace for the worst. With nowhere to go, water collects across sidewalks, roads and highways — the flat, desert landscape becomes a wetland in the blink of an eye.Local officials in Ector...
Dec 5 2025 // A U.S. agency said on Thursday it has asked Waymo to answer more questions after Texas officials said the Alphabet GOOGL.O unit’s self-driving vehicles had illegally passed school buses 19 times in recorded incidents...
Dec 17 2025 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Xcel Energy Inc., accusing the utility company of “blatant negligence” over its role in the Smokehouse Creek wildfire that killed three people and caused more than $1...
Dec 4 2025 // Brett Flagg Brett Flagg, of Frisco, Texas, has been reappointed to the Texas Mutual Insurance Company board of directors by Gov. Greg Abbott. His board term for Texas Mutual—a policyholder-owned company and the...
Dec 4 2025 // The owners of an all-girls summer camp in the Texas Hill Country, where 25 campers and two teenage counselors died in catastrophic July 4 flooding, announced plans on Tuesday for new safety upgrades that will be in place...
Dec 16 2025 // YA Group announced the acquisition of the business of J.M. Reagan Consulting (JMR), a multidisciplinary consulting business specializing in property damage consulting and construction claims. The strategic acquisition...
Dec 10 2025 // As Mexican officials battle the spread of New World Screwworm, Texas officials are still working to finalize a response plan that would be enacted should the parasitic fly spread into the state.Texas lawmakers questioned...
Dec 3 2025 // Three weeks after flash floods in Texas’ Hill Country killed more than 100 people, state lawmakers chastised Kerr County leaders for rejecting money a year earlier to create a warning system that could have alerted...
Dec 22 2025 // An executive order by President Donald Trump may bring Texas into conflict with the federal government over a new state law regulating the use of artificial intelligence.Trump signed an executive order last week that...
Dec 8 2025 // The district charged with overseeing the construction of a massive set of gates across the mouth of Galveston Bay — known as the “Ike Dike” — announced last week that it has approved contracts with two...
Dec 24 2025 // One morning in mid-November, Mario Guerrero, the executive director of the South Texas Builders Association, was checking a group chat when a video of federal agents detaining people from a construction site popped up.He...
Dec 19 2025 // With the next Texas flood season just months away, Kerr County officials say they’re in a race to build a long-planned flood warning system estimated to cost up to $5 million — and they’re depending on the...
Dec 24 2025 // A small Mexican Navy plane transporting a young medical patient and seven others crashed Monday near Galveston, killing at least five people and setting off a search in waters along the Texas coast, officials said.Four of...
Dec 24 2025 // Areawide Insurance Advisors has joined Leavitt Group Texas Select, strengthening the agency’s presence in the Bryan and College Station area with the added resources of Leavitt Group, a national brokerage. Mike...