Category: State News

Other Texas cities have built underground channels to divert stormwater. Experts say it might not be the right way to go for Houston, but that it’s still worth exploring.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton demanded Fort Worth ISD Superintendent Kent Scribner turn over a copy of a sixth-grade health curriculum that includes lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity.

As an El Paso shelter prepared to take in undocumented immigrants separated from their children, President Trump’s tweets calling for deportations without due process drew rebukes.

Texans can now store their precious metals in a publicly backed secure vault close to home, as the United States’ first state-run gold depository opens for business in Austin. A 23,000-square-foot building — operated by the private storage company Lone Star Tangible Assets — will serve as Texas’ precious metals depository until 2019, when Lone Star is scheduled to open a facility double that size in Leander.

The governor’s announcement follows three days of roundtable discussions about school safety last week at the Capitol. He said he was open to a special session to implement some of his ideas.