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Mary Liz Eastland failed to develop proper emergency plans or properly respond to the flood that killed 25 campers and two counselors last year, the order states.
Texas' Ken Paxton and James Talarico focus their energies — and attack ads — on each other as the fight for U.S. Senate narrows to two.
Paxton’s blowout win on Tuesday compelled an alliance by necessity, if not natural synergy, between the attorney general and the Washington groups that spent months trying to elect John Cornyn.
The 54,000-acre Silver Lake Ranch, straddling Kinney and Edwards counties, has a 30-acre spring-fed lake. An opening date hasn’t been determined.
The governor said undergraduate tuition and fees should stay frozen after some public university systems weighed increases.
The survey is the latest to measure eroding Latino support for the president and the GOP after historic gains in 2024. But a polling expert said Democrats were “still underperforming” among the bloc.
Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dustin Burrows all supported French’s opponent.
Alief school board President Darlene Breaux defeated Vo, who spent more than two decades in the Texas House. Dallas state Rep. Venton Jones held off Amanda Richardson.
Johnson succeeded Allred in Congress, but Republican redistricting pushed them into an unusual primary confrontation for the 33rd Congressional District.
The boundaries of the 35th Congressional District in South Central Texas were redrawn in 2025 to favor GOP candidates as requested by President Trump.
The Austin lawmaker now faces an uphill battle against Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the state’s second-highest executive, in November.

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Thousands of residents were shocked by their April water bills, with some being charged for enough water to fill multiple backyard pools.The sticker shock came
A fifth-grader’s $20 donation to BSA Hospital has grown into a new effort aimed at lifting the spirits of children and staff through simple acts of kindness.Jac
Thousands of DACA recipients across the country are facing long delays in renewing their work permits, a growing backlog that immigration advocates say is leavi
A student from Ascension Academy made it to the semifinals of the National Spelling Bee.Wednesday morning,Arnav "Arnie" Parat, 13, scored high enough on the Ro
Drivers who use FM 807 will need to plan for a closure starting Monday, June 1, as maintenance work is set to shut down a stretch of the roadway for several wee
Governor Greg Abbott announced Wednesday that undergraduate tuition and fees at Texas public colleges and universities will remain frozen through the 2026–27 ac
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, easily defeating four-term Sen. John Cornyn in the latest contest wh
A Curry County inmate has been sentenced to 19 1/2 years in prison after being convicted in a violent 2021 assault inside the Curry County Adult Detention Center,

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The trial for Shane James, the man accused of killing six people in 2023, is set to begin in October.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced it filed a lawsuit against Buc-ee’s in connection with a disability discrimination claim.
Firefighters in Hutto extinguished a fire believed to have been caused by a lightning strike on Wednesday.
Starting May 28, any company that runs commercial self-driving cars in the state must hold an authorization from the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, or TxDMV.
Facing a more than $181 million dollar budget deficit, Austin ISD has had to make many difficult decisions.
A GoFundMe fundraiser for Peelander-Z later confirmed that all three members of the band — who go by the names Peelander Yellow, Peelander Pink, and Peelander Tiger — were hospitalized with "traumatic injuries."
Today's highs in the upper 80s will be the coolest of the next seven as we kick off a string of 90s on Friday. -Meteorologist Kristen Currie
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen college tuition and fees for the upcoming academic year.
A proposal from Austin Mayor Kirk Watson to pull back some of the city’s commitment to building highway caps over I-35 won’t move forward this week.
A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper used an encrypted messaging app to communicate with, what appears to be, federal immigration agents during a traffic stop that led to the detention of an Austin Independent School District student, body worn camera video shows.
As spring continues on a wetter note, we're looking ahead to the start of meteorological summer which begins with the start of June.
A well-known Hays County swimming hole continues to suffer the consequences of several dry years in a row, combined with water use beyond the inflows.

World News from Wall Street Journal

The world’s top three container operators said they fear instability in Gaza and broader regional tensions mean continued danger.
Israel allowed displaced Gazans to begin crossing a military zone that bisects the enclave after a deadlock over hostage releases was broken.
Troubles at Vanke raise questions about the continued spread of the property crisis and whether the Chinese state will step in.
Some of the women were held alone for extended periods and spent eight months in tunnels, an Israeli medical official said.
The alliance mounted its first coordinated response to a suspected sabotage campaign against critical infrastructure after another cable was severed in the Baltic Sea.
Residents of Goma reported gunfire and shelling after rebels overran Congolese troops. U.N. officials estimated that more than one million displaced people were now inside the city.
Attacks by powerful militias against civilians reflect the state’s inaction eight years after a peace accord removed a powerful rebel group from the field.
The U.K., Italy and Japan have already partnered on the Global Combat Air Programme, which aims to put a new stealth fighter with supersonic capability in the skies by 2035.
The dictator, eager to shut out the influence of Hollywood and K-pop, has been exalting a “shock brigade” of 300,000 teens and 20-somethings drafted into flood reconstruction.
The president has made immigration an early priority to start second term, with ICE making more than 900 arrests Sunday.

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