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Campaign texts cost as little as a penny each, and your number sits in party voter files. Here is what federal rules allow, what replying STOP does and the one thing strategists say works best.
Texas collected $4.8 billion in state sales tax in October, the second straight month of double-digit growth. Business spending led, restaurants lagged and oil and gas fell.
With Project 11 widening done, Port Houston is launching its own study of a deeper channel and weighing a 318-acre container terminal on Spilman Island. Its current terminals could hit their limit by 2033.
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Luling's council will consider putting a pool and splash pad out for bids Thursday. The city says it has slightly over $3 million available, including a $1 million gift.
Melvin declined an EMS agreement with Brady, leaving the Brady council to decide Tuesday whether to keep answering calls unpaid. RV rules and sirens are also up.
Gonzales, Texas (ZIP 78629) was founded twice as the capital of Green DeWitt’s colony, refused to give a cannon back in 1835, sent thirty-two men to die at the Alamo and was burned by Sam Houston’s retreating army. Here is the fuller record, including the parts the slogan leaves out.
City records point to Legacy Grove Section 2 as the project behind the clearing near Meating Place BBQ on Eva Street. Here's what has been approved, what is still preliminary, and what the neighborhood rumors got right—and wrong.
A Learjet 60 that left Austin-Bergstrom for the Bahamas crashed in Palm Beach County, Florida, Sunday, killing all nine aboard. The pilot had reported ice and turbulence before declaring a mayday.
A preliminary study of FDA adverse-event reports found energy drinks and stimulant supplements were linked to cardiac arrest and heart attacks far more often than other products, especially among adults 18 to 34. It does not prove cause.
A new round of Rural Texas Strong grants targets chronic disease, small-town doctor and EMS recruiting, and worn-out equipment. It is federal money, and no dollar flows until a contract is signed.
Sen. Chris Murphy was hospitalized Saturday after a stroke that began with arm numbness at his son's hockey game. Here are the CDC's warning signs and what to do.
Martha Stewart said she meant to raise awareness of homelessness with a Halloween costume many saw as mocking the poor. More than 745,000 Americans were homeless on one night in January 2025.
Netflix's three-part "The One About Matthew Perry" revisits the Friends star's addiction through his sister and friends. No Friends castmates took part. Critics call it sincere but padded.
Sir Patrick Stewart, Star Trek's Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and the X-Men's Professor X, died Oct. 28 at 86 after Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia.
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.
Texas collected $4.8 billion in state sales tax in October, the second straight month of double-digit growth. Business spending led, restaurants lagged and oil and gas fell.
An Election Day guide drawn from official federal guidance: polling places, voter ID, the first-time voter rule, provisional ballots, accessibility rights and how to report intimidation or fraud.
Comal ISD's $567 million bond would build two I-35 corridor elementary schools. The district says its debt rate would hold, but interest would top the principal.
Three good fawn years pushed the Texas whitetail herd to an estimated 5.64 million. State biologists expect a good season, with the best odds in the Hill Country, Cross Timbers and Rolling Plains.
Voters in Idaho, Missouri, Nevada and Virginia decide abortion measures on Election Day, including a Missouri amendment that shares a number with the 2024 measure it would repeal.
Poetry will hold a Nov. 19 hearing on scrapping its 2024 zoning ordinance after leaders found the map was never approved. Voters also decide a road sales tax Tuesday.
The lieutenant governor decides which bills live or die in the Texas Senate. Patrick and Democrat Vikki Goodwin split on property taxes, school choice, THC, library books and data centers.
In his final major speech before Election Day, President Trump celebrated the reopened Reflecting Pool, repeated a vandalism claim his own prosecutors walked back, and conceded the president's party usually loses midterms.
Election Day preview: after defeats in 2024 and 2025, Crandall ISD's smaller Proposition A would add $1.29 million in local revenue for teacher pay and campus staff.
