Category: State News

A plumber was shocked to find “hundreds of envelopes of cash and checks hidden in a wall” at Joel Osteen’s Texas church while performing routine repair work.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had called the mandate “an unprecedented federal vaccine decree” on health care workers.

O’Rourke has ground to make up after his own underwhelming performance with voters there in 2018 when he ran for U.S. Senate — and turning out more Latino voters has long been key to Democratic hopes statewide.

Evictions in major Texas cities have reached levels not seen since the pandemic began. But tenant protections and financial assistance for struggling renters are beginning to fade.

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a nonprofit corporation responsible for overseeing US’ power grid, published a new report on the risk of rolling blackouts if persistent cold weather is observed this winter.  The report identifies Texas as having the weakest power grid if extreme cold weather were to strike.