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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a nationwide settlement with Sprouts Farmers Market, prohibiting the grocery chain from misting produce with the chemical sanitizer ProduceMaxx.
Governor Greg Abbott has directed the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to freeze all environmental permits for data center projects until an electrical grid reliability audit is completed.
Texas state officials have appointed a 13-member higher education working group tasked with creating a statewide framework for accelerated three-year bachelor's degrees aimed at lowering college costs.
A formal legal opinion issued by the Texas Attorney General clarifies that school district police must refer suspected abuse cases to outside law enforcement.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security approved $7.5 billion in federal funding to reimburse Texas for expenditures incurred under Operation Lone Star.
Federal regulators approved nearly $12 billion in Medicaid funding for Texas hospitals, physicians, and rural clinics following extensive intergovernmental negotiations.
The Texas Department of Insurance outlined new regulatory mandates targeting escalating residential insurance rates, barring carriers from denying coverage solely based on roof age.
The Texas Supreme Court has barred Galveston County from using newly redrawn precinct lines in November, ruling that changing voting maps mid-election cycle violates state law.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas has approved a 370-mile transmission line linking South Texas to the Permian Basin, ordering utilities to work with landowners to mitigate property impacts.
A Texas state district judge has found TikTok liable for deceiving parents about platform safety and exposing minors to explicit material, marking the first time a state has established liability against the social media company.
Texas has paused new data center approvals as officials assess their impact on the power grid.
League City will allow voters to decide on the future of automated license plate readers.
A federal judge has refused to block Texas' ban on most hemp-derived THC products.
SpaceX plans a semiconductor facility in Grimes County, with conflicting investment estimates.
Ken Paxton and James Talarico have each proposed plans aimed at improving affordability.
President Trump argues against Texas's pause on data center approvals, citing economic potential.
Goldman Sachs is investing $700 million in a new campus in Dallas set to open in 2028.
The state paused new grid connections for data centers. Regulators must now collect incentive and ownership details operators declined to give voluntarily.
Kay Granger, the first woman mayor of Fort Worth and a long-serving congresswoman, has died.
A recent study suggests that fully autonomous vehicles could reduce traffic delays in Dallas-Fort Worth by 33 percent.
Governor Greg Abbott attended the grand opening of Bob's House of Hope in Justin, described as the nation's first safe house exclusively for adult male survivors of human trafficking, and pointed to newly signed laws that stiffen penalties for traffickers.
