The most viewed headlines from our Texas Topic Page over the last 30 days.
Dec 13 2024 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a notice of violation against Allstate-owned Arity, a mobile data company that collects drivers’ information, for breaching the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act...
Dec 27 2024 // Most Texas drivers will no longer be required to have their cars pass an annual safety exam after state lawmakers removed the rule from Texas code.Texas is one of 15 states that mandate annual inspections for noncommercial...
Dec 23 2024 // SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A teacher at a San Antonio-area day care was killed and another employee and five toddlers were injured when a parent’s car accelerated into another vehicle in the parking lot and both vehicles...
Jan 7 2025 // Twenty miles outside Corpus Christi, Texas — an area so dry the local water company distributes shower timers at high school football games — the world’s richest man is nearly done building a lithium refinery...
Jan 7 2025 // A winter storm is poised to pummel Texas and the US South later this week, putting the region at risk of blackouts and travel mayhem.About 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 centimeters) of snow and ice will fall across southern...
Dec 23 2024 // Two Union Pacific employees were killed and three people were injured when a freight train collided with a tractor-trailer and derailed in a small West Texas city, authorities said Thursday.The train derailed around 5 p.m....
Dec 12 2024 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit on Dec. 11 against manufacturers 3M and DuPont for misrepresenting the health risks of products made with forever chemicalsThe lawsuit alleges the companies for decades...
Dec 27 2024 // Inszone Insurance Services announced the acquisition of Roten & Company Insurance, a longstanding family-owned and operated insurance agency based in San Antonio, Texas. This acquisition strengthens Inszone’s...
Dec 26 2024 // A U.S. Department of Labor workplace safety investigation has found a Frisco, Texas contractor repeatedly exposed workers to serious hazards by sending them into unprotected trenches without providing a means of escape.The...
Dec 23 2024 // Johnson County’s newest state representative, Helen Kerwin, R-Cleburne, filed her first bill Friday targeting an environmental problem that has struck her county: PFAS contamination in sewage sludge-based...
Jan 8 2025 // Flight cancellations are already piling up as a winter storm bears down on Texas and the US South, bringing snow and ice that could coat power lines and trigger blackouts.As of 7:30 a.m. in New York, at least 169 flights...
Dec 11 2024 // Inszone Insurance Services announced the acquisition Commercial Insurance of Texas Agency Services, a specialized agency based in Texas. This strategic acquisition strengthens Inszone’s presence in Texas and...
Dec 19 2024 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Austin, Texas-based Howe Insurance Group LLC, dba DMc Insurance Partners. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. DMc Insurance Partners is a personal...
Dec 16 2024 // Ayvaz Pizza, LLC, doing business as Pizza Hut, which operates more than 350 Pizza Hut restaurants in ten states and multiple locations in the Houston area, violated federal law when it subjected a female employee to...
Dec 18 2024 // Texas Governor Greg Abbott has a new ambition for the Lone Star State: surpassing France as one of the world’s largest economies.Abbott predicted that economic output in Texas would soon exceed that of the struggling...
Dec 11 2024 // Inszone Insurance Services announced the acquisition of Southerland and Associates, Inc., an agency based in Austin, Texas. The strengthens Inszone’s footprint in Texas, enhancing the company’s ability to...
Dec 11 2024 // WASHINGTON (AP) — The deadly crash of two vintage military planes at a 2022 air show in Texas was caused by a lack of proper planning to keep aircraft separated and relying instead on a “see-and-avoid...
Jan 7 2025 // Texas has seen surging interest from companies hoping to bury carbon dioxide in its oilfields, putting the state at the vanguard of a government-subsidized program to fight climate change.But pumping CO2 into the ground...
Dec 30 2024 // HOUSTON (AP) — A strong storm system threatened to whip up tornadoes in parts of the U.S. Southeast on Sunday, a day after severe weather claimed at least two lives as twisters touched down in Texas and...
Dec 12 2024 // A federal court on Wednesday affirmed a federal judge’s 2021 ruling imposing a $14.25 million penalty on Exxon Mobil for thousands of violations of the federal Clean Air Act at the company’s refinery and...