A cold front will move through Southeast Texas late Monday into Tuesday, bringing cooler mornings and drier conditions to Houston after a rainy weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
Dallas will keep more than 300 Flock Safety cameras that officials had planned to remove after the surveillance company offered a 90-day payment pause for agencies affected by Gov. Greg Abbott’s freeze on state funding for the devices.
A federal court hearing Wednesday revealed new details about the Sept. 20 shooting of Venezuelan delivery driver Wilber Garces Perez during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in North Austin, including how ICE agents identified him and what investigators know about the confrontation.
The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) board approved a roughly $1.7 billion budget for fiscal year 2027 on Wednesday, including $40 million for road, sidewalk and bus stop improvements.
Texas property tax cuts have eliminated school property tax bills for nearly 2.4 million homeowners, with older Texans receiving a significant share of the savings as state lawmakers consider additional tax relief.
Gov. Greg Abbott urged Texans Monday to prepare for heavy rain and possible flash flooding as storms move across parts of the state over the next several days.
Remnants of Hurricane Polo could bring heavy rain and flash flooding to parts of Texas from Monday through Wednesday as tropical moisture moves into the state, weather officials said.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico and Republican candidate Ken Paxton agreed Saturday that the federal gas tax should be suspended, although Paxton called for permanently eliminating the tax while Talarico proposed a temporary suspension.
Harris County election officials are processing about 75,000 voter registration records after the Texas Department of Public Safety failed to transmit hundreds of thousands of applications to county election offices because of a technical error.
The Texas Department of Transportation is proposing a $209 million project to widen a section of the Grand Parkway and add two flyover ramps at Interstate 45 near Spring to address traffic congestion.