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Cartels turn to social media to lure Americans into human smuggling as Texas enforces stricter laws

Posted 1:36 PM 12/20/2024 by Alejandro Serrano, Graphics by Elijah Nicholson-Messmer

"Cartels turn to social media to lure Americans into human smuggling as Texas enforces stricter laws" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a (More)

Texas House panel may never hear Robert Roberson’s testimony after new legal move

Texas is now home to 31 million people even as population growth slows

As landowners resist, Texas’ border wall is fragmented and built in remote areas

12/18/2024

Texas’ citrus industry — once an agricultural powerhouse — is on the brink of disaster

Posted 4:24 PM 12/19/2024 by Berenice Garcia, The Texas Tribune

"Texas’ citrus industry — once an agricultural powerhouse — is on the brink of disaster" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans (More)

Texas’ latest effort to deter migrants is a billboard campaign in Mexico, Central America

Texas Republicans want voters to provide proof of citizenship. Arizona’s law holds lessons.

Gov. Greg Abbott announces more than $500 million in public safety grants

Texas has big goals for college completion. In places like the Coastal Bend, how to get there is still murky.

12/16/2024

Texas jailer dies after being assaulted by confined man, sheriff says

Posted 6:05 PM 12/17/2024

WAXAHACHIE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man being held in jail fatally assaulted a detention officer who was returning him to his cell following the one hour he was allowed out of his lockup each day, a sheriff said Tuesday.

Isaiah Patrick Bias, a 28-year-old who worked at the Ellis County (More)

Texas school districts asked to return $16 million in federal funding for special education services

A school voucher program in Texas is more likely than ever. Can lawmakers craft a bill they agree on?

After learning hard lessons in Austin, Greg Casar to take Congressional Progressive Caucus in new direction

Texas regulators report more than 250 new cases of groundwater contamination

12/13/2024

Texas man gets 100 years in prison for shootings that killed 1, wounded others in Nevada, Arizona

Posted 2:29 PM 12/14/2024

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A judge in Las Vegas sentenced a Texas man to 100 years in prison for his role in a two-state shooting rampage on Thanksgiving 2020 that included the killing of a man in Nevada and a shootout with authorities in Arizona.

Christopher McDonnell, 32, pleaded guilty in (More)