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Don Huffines' new rules require grant recipients to verify every applicable hire and follow federal immigration law, with immediate termination as the penalty. Whether Comptroller-elect Sarah Eckhardt keeps them is unclear.
Don Huffines says a first batch of Education Freedom Accounts data goes online this week, including how many students are funded, how many are waiting and the effect on public school enrollment. No auditor has been named yet.
Signed Thursday after the deadly July 2025 Hill Country floods, the law gives the FCC 18 months to write rules; carriers that opt out must tell their customers, and the change is years from taking effect.
A Texas Tribune review of AdImpact data finds Democrats shifted late to taxes, now their costliest issue at $35.8 million, while GOP spending centers on crime and transgender issues.
The agency says states should take the lead on recovery; survivors' advocates want a state relief fund, and Gov. Greg Abbott's office points to tax and food aid it has sought.
Modeling released Tuesday projects statewide nitrogen oxide emissions rising 35% by 2031 even with clean power, and nearly 400% if data centers run on their own natural gas generators.
About 4,800 students that young were referred in 2024-25, a third more than 10 years earlier, as more police went into schools; an El Paso lawmaker says he will seek limits in January.
The homestead exemption has grown from $15,000 to $140,000 in a decade; lawmakers credit it with billions in relief, while a Plano ISD official says the state's backfill has come up short.
As Austin ISD awaits TEA's decision, records from Houston, Fort Worth and Beaumont show districts paying for leadership changes and overhauls themselves; TEA says it helps districts find other revenue.
Texas schools asked for 64,489 rescores of open-ended reading responses, up from 21,620 a year earlier, and more than 13,300 scores went up after human review, The Texas Tribune reports.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has proposed updated enforcement rules for Senate Bill 17, creating a public mapping portal modeled after the state sex-offender registry to track foreign adversary real estate holdings and establishing a dedicated investigative task force.
The governor raised more than $20 million from July through Sept. 24 and has $18.2 million left; Democrat Gina Hinojosa raised more than $13 million and has $4 million, new reports show.
Election administrators say glitches in TEAM, the state's voter database, are slowing work on hundreds of thousands of registrations a DPS error delayed; the secretary of state's office says fixes are coming.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened a formal investigation into UnitedHealth Group, issuing Civil Investigative Demands under the Deceptive Trade Practices Act over alleged deceptive coverage denials, nursing home delays, and improper prior-authorization revocations.
A federal judge in El Paso has granted a preliminary injunction temporarily halting border barrier construction and ground-clearing activity across the Big Bend region of West Texas.
Texas state sales tax revenue reached $4.4 billion in September, reflecting an 11.5% increase over the previous year driven by robust commercial activity.
Five Texas community colleges have received federal authorization to offer Workforce Pell aid for short-term career training, alongside a new $10.4 million federal grant to expand technical credentials statewide.
State prosecutors finalized a resolution concluding allegations that the pharmaceutical manufacturer misled Medicaid providers regarding how quickly an ADHD medication acted for pediatric patients.
Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a civil demand investigating whether the association's law school accreditation standards unlawfully inflate educational expenses and restrict competition.
State and federal officials celebrated the start of construction on a private $3 billion maritime manufacturing shipyard at the Port of Brownsville expected to generate up to 10,000 jobs.
Christmas parade, Brew & Que and the 60th anniversary banner bring the town six marketing and events awards
November 14, 2026
John Cornyn and Ted Cruz: How Your Senators Voted This Week
November 14, 2026
Denton County Sheriff's Office buys five more Flock license plate cameras, locations not yet announced
November 14, 2026
Developer seeks 225 for-rent townhomes on one of the last open tracts along Eldorado Parkway
November 13, 2026
Ferguson Is Out. Dallas’ Tight End Answer Has to Be Shared
November 14, 2026
Silva's 20 Points Power No. 15 TCU to 106-47 Rout of SE Louisiana
November 13, 2026
Minnesota’s 133-94 Rout of Dallas Highlights Dominant Home Performance
November 13, 2026
Dallas’ 33 Shots Couldn’t Explain an 8-3 Collapse Against Winnipeg
November 13, 2026
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