The former state senator who wrote Texas' higher education overhaul now runs Texas Tech, where he has reviewed courses, restricted gender and sexuality content and struck a deal with Nvidia. Supporters call it a national model. Faculty groups are suing.
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The former state senator who wrote Texas' higher education overhaul now runs Texas Tech, where he has reviewed courses, restricted gender and sexuality content and struck a deal with Nvidia. Supporters call it a national model. Faculty groups are suing.
GCISD trustees voted 5-2 to let families ask for a campus other than their zoned school for 2027-28, with limits on space, attendance and discipline.
The totals on TV Tuesday night are unofficial. Election officials keep counting, reconcile ballots, audit machines and certify results over the following days and weeks.
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Lost Maples gets the crowds, but TPWD points to yellow cottonwoods at Caprock Canyons and East Texas hardwoods at Daingerfield, Cooper and more. Here is where to go and what to know.
Texas logs close to 8,000 reported animal-vehicle crashes a year, most at night on rural roads from October through December. The end of daylight saving time puts more drivers on the road in the dark just as deer are on the move.
About 700,000 sandhill cranes winter in Texas, from the Panhandle to the coast. Here is how to know one, when they peak and where to go, from Muleshoe to Aransas County.
A firefly unrecorded for 43 years has been found in Delaware. Its rediscovery reveals what may be happening to the fireflies many of us remember chasing as children — and why leaving a little ground wild can matter.
A court fight with an irrigation district has federal lawyers weighing a move of 2.8 miles of wall from a levee into the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge near Alamo. Here is what was said in court.
The Milwaukee Brewers beat Tampa Bay 4-1 in Game 5 on Oct. 28 to win their first World Series. Their only earlier trip, in 1982, ended in a Game 7 loss.
The Brewers, chasing their first title, came back from a four-run deficit to beat the Rays 5-4 and take a 2-0 World Series lead.
Tom Cruise will receive the 52nd AFI Life Achievement Award at a gala tribute at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on April 24, 2027.
Virginia's Question 2 would replace the constitution's definition of marriage. Pastor Ben Purves has sued, arguing required courthouse postings were never made.
All Saints' Day falls on Sunday, Nov. 1. Here is how the feast began in the age of Roman persecution and how it came to be observed on Nov. 1.
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Two bishops who prayed with President Trump on Oct. 22 say the White House released photos and video without permission and turned the meeting into a political moment.
St. Mary's Church of the Assumption in tiny Praha is perhaps the best-known of Texas's painted churches. Here is the story of the Bohemian parish and the Swiss painter behind it.
The totals on TV Tuesday night are unofficial. Election officials keep counting, reconcile ballots, audit machines and certify results over the following days and weeks.
After a lawsuit stalled it for years, Dripping Springs is taking bids on phase one of a sewer plant expansion. Staff expect to recommend a contractor in early 2027.
New Census Bureau numbers released Thursday show Texas incomes inched up in 2025 while more than half of the state's renters spent 30% or more of their income on housing. Property tax bills for paid-off homes fell.
Real GDP rose at a 3.4% annual rate from July through September, up from 2.2% in the spring, led by consumer spending and a surge in AI-related business investment.
Nurses in the HCA Houston Healthcare Conroe NICU dressed their tiniest patients in festive Halloween costumes, from a sea captain to a pot of spaghetti.
Bee Cave backed a funding agreement with TxDOT to add turn lanes, new signals and pedestrian facilities at Highway 71, Hamilton Pool Road and Bee Cave Parkway.
In a 40-page filing Thursday, the church group, landowner and environmental group suing over the Big Bend wall told the justices that lifting a judge's order would let blasting and bulldozing resume. The government says the order hurts border security.
Lost Maples gets the crowds, but TPWD points to yellow cottonwoods at Caprock Canyons and East Texas hardwoods at Daingerfield, Cooper and more. Here is where to go and what to know.
The Milwaukee Brewers beat Tampa Bay 4-1 in Game 5 on Oct. 28 to win their first World Series. Their only earlier trip, in 1982, ended in a Game 7 loss.
