Houston City Council removed an application for a U.S. Department of Justice Model Cities Initiative grant from its Wednesday agenda as city officials seek clarification about requirements that include immigration law enforcement operations.
Six Texas landowners and the nonprofit Conserve Big Bend, representing another 230 landowners, sued the Trump administration Monday over plans to seize private property for border wall construction in the Big Bend region.
Texas Children’s Hospital ranked No. 1 among pediatric hospitals in the Southwest and earned a place on the 2026-2027 U.S. News & World Report Best Children’s Hospitals Honor Roll.
Republican candidate for Texas railroad commissioner Bo French faces criticism from officials in both parties after he posted a photo of students of color at a University of Texas football game and described them as evidence of Americans being “displaced by foreigners.”
President Donald Trump nominated U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Houston, to serve as ambassador to Saudi Arabia on Monday, offering the second-term congressman a diplomatic post after his unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Senate.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Monday that the agency will roll back Biden-era greenhouse gas standards for coal- and natural gas-fired power plants during a G20 energy conference in Houston, drawing criticism from Texas environmental groups and researchers.
Collin County commissioners voted 4-1 Monday to raise the property tax rate for the first time in 33 years, approving a fiscal year 2027 budget that increases the rate about 2.4%.
The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement has ordered the Trinidad Police Department to disband after finding that the agency failed to meet minimum standards and could not show that it provided a public benefit to the community.
Amazon plans to invest $10 billion in a 13-building data center project near Boling-Iago in Wharton County, with construction already underway and the project’s power demand and timeline still unclear.
Deaths involving ectopic pregnancies in the United States nearly doubled from 2020 through 2025, while Texas and other states with strict abortion bans recorded higher-than-average death rates, according to a ProPublica analysis.