Posted 9:49 AM 8/8/2026 by Alex Nguyen, The Texas Tribune

An all-Republican Texas appeals court has delivered another blow to Attorney General Ken Paxton’s challenge of the State Fair’s firearms ban, just over a month before the annual weekslong event returns to Dallas.

Posted 1:57 PM 8/7/2026 by Claudia Garcia

Texas Comptroller Don Huffines is encouraging Texans to take advantage of the state's annual tax-free weekend to save money on back-to-school purchases.

Most clothing, footwear, school supplies and backpacks priced under $100 qualify for the exemption. The holiday runs from Friday, Aug. 7 (More)

Posted 9:24 AM 8/6/2026 by JAYME LOZANO CARVER | THE TEXAS TRIBUNE

LUBBOCK — The Davis Mountain Clinic is not your typical rural medical clinic. It doesn’t have windows or a big waiting room, and there aren’t teams of physicians and nurses waiting on patients.

Instead, there’s one nurse, Carol Brewer, who connects patients (More)

Posted 12:41 PM 8/5/2026 by Kayla Guo, The Texas Tribune, and Zach Despart, The Texas Tribune and ProPublica

Texas state Rep. James Talarico voted in five elections using his parents’ address after purchasing a home for himself (More)

Posted 5:07 PM 8/3/2026 by Paul Cobler

Amid growing public backlash to the rapid buildout of data centers across Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday announced a moratorium on the approval of data centers until regulatory agencies can (More)

Posted 9:26 AM 8/1/2026 by Houston Public Media, The Texas Tribune

It's hard to overstate just how much Texas has riding on a successful renegotiation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA. Mexico and Canada are (More)