1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (658+ words) Lawmakers and landowners again told regulators to pause pending 765-kilovolt transmission lines, arguing that the approval process is broken and more transmission will not solve Texas’ electrical needs. Public Utility Commission of Texas Chairman Thomas Gleeson said each extra-high-voltage line…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (580+ words) A Texas congressman says the reforms are putting "lipstick on a pig" as the public pushback continues. Security camera company Flock Safety has announced changes to its privacy safeguards amid public opposition to use of the devices and concerns about…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (670+ words) Police have arrested six people in connection with student misconduct and and efforts to conceal the crimes. A widening scandal in the Winnsboro Independent School District, involving administrators allegedly covering up educators’ sexual misconduct with students, may be heating up…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (292+ words) The preliminary budget seeks to lower the county tax rate while increasing employee pay and maintaining funding for public safety and mental health services. Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare has backed a preliminary budget plan that would cut the county…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (272+ words) The move stands in contrast to other taxpayer-subsidized universities. Regents for the Texas Tech University System ratified tenure designations for seven professors across the system as part of the consent agenda for yesterday’s quarterly meeting. The professors in question—five…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (411+ words) Cartel-linked fuel trafficking has evolved into a multibillion-dollar organized-crime enterprise that endangers motorists with overloaded hazardous-material trucks, damages roads and farmland, and helps launder proceeds from drug and human trafficking, according to testimony before a Texas Senate Committee on Thursday....

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (467+ words) Fort Bend County advanced its proposed property tax rate Thursday despite the continued absence of two commissioners who are challenging Daniel Wong's authority to serve as county judge. Fort Bend County commissioners moved forward with a proposed property tax rate…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (463+ words) School board trustee Daniel San Miguel was also a police officer assigned to Refugio ISD. A Goliad Independent School District trustee is facing new child sex crime charges following his arrest in June for allegedly raping a minor. Daniel San…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (600+ words) A charter amendment on Houston’s November 3 ballot would make misdemeanor marijuana possession the Houston Police Department’s lowest enforcement priority and ban no-knock warrants. Houston voters will decide on two significant law enforcement policy changes on the November 3 ballot after the…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (367+ words) Announcement comes as transmission companies prepare applications for East Texas lines. State Sen. Bob Hall has asked Gov. Greg Abbott to pause all extra-high-voltage transmission line projects. This comes as regulators meet to discuss three such proposed projects. The three…...