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Clocks Fall Back Nov. 1. Here Is How to Use the Extra Hour Well.
Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. local time on Sunday, Nov. 1, as Congress has yet to pass a bill ending the twice-yearly clock change.
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Galveston’s ‘Ghost Wolves’ Carry Something Worth Saving
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Texas Learned to Drill for Oil. Now It May Drill for the Power Behind AI.
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Clocks Fall Back Nov. 1. Here Is How to Use the Extra Hour Well.
Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. local time on Sunday, Nov. 1, as Congress has yet to pass a bill ending the twice-yearly clock change.
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Buying Your Own Health Insurance? Texas Open Enrollment Starts Nov. 1. Here Is What Changes for 2027
About 4.2 million Texans picked a Marketplace plan for 2026. For 2027, two insurers are leaving, proposed rates are up and the deadlines matter. Here is what to check before you renew.
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Texas Data Centers Could Undo Two Decades of Cleaner Air, New Report Warns. What It Means for Your Lungs
A Houston Advanced Research Center report projects that nitrogen oxide emissions could rise 35% by 2031 even in a clean-power scenario, and nearly 400% if data centers run on their own gas generators. Here is the health risk and how to protect your family on bad air days.
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Operating Room Air Purifiers Did Not Cut Surgical Infections, UTHealth Houston-Led Study Finds
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Panna Maria, the Oldest Polish Settlement in America, Began With a Mass Under an Oak
On Christmas Eve 1854, Silesian families gave thanks under a live oak in Karnes County. Their church still stands beside it, and it is open every day.
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Reformation Day Is Oct. 31. Luther's First Thesis Still Calls Every Christian to Repent.
Many Protestants mark Reformation Day on Oct. 31, the traditional date Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses in Wittenberg in 1517.
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Texas Baptists Will Vote in Waco on Who Counts as a Cooperating Church and Who Decides
Messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas meet Nov. 15-17 in Waco. On the agenda: the first constitution rewrite in a decade, a reduced 2027 budget and voting by text message.
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Kermit Council Set to Finalize Voter-Approval Tax Rate and Ask Austin to Leave the Cap Alone
Thursday's second reading locks in a $0.342649 rate, the most the city can adopt without an election. Kermit's legislative wish list also opposes lowering that limit.
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FEMA Denies Individual Aid to Texans Hit by the July Floods. Abbott Is Weighing an Appeal
Families in Kerr County, Uvalde and across the Hill Country will not get FEMA individual assistance for July 2026 flood damage. The state is reviewing an appeal as Washington tells states to carry more of the load.
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Irving ISD Asks for $952 Million, Including a New Irving High School
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Russia Frees Stephen Hubbard After Four Years. Thank God He Is Home, but Putin Is No Humanitarian.
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Farmers Branch Charter Panel Wraps Up: Resignation Penalty, Smaller Quorum and More
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Montgomery Law Firm's Operation Turkey Will Hand Out Free Thanksgiving Meals to Families in Need
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Amazon May Quadruple Its Middletown Footprint. But Will the Robots Bring the Jobs?
Amazon is advancing plans for two massive fulfillment centers near Middletown's U.S. 301 interchange that could add more than 5 million square feet and roughly 1,500 permanent jobs. The buildings are designed around robots—and that changes the math on what industrial growth delivers.
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Sea Rim State Park, Near Port Arthur, Is Where the Marsh Meets the Gulf
Fall migrants rest on 4,141 acres of beach and marsh at the far southeast corner of Texas. Here is what to see, what it costs and what is closed.
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Clocks Fall Back Nov. 1. Here Is How to Use the Extra Hour Well.
Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. local time on Sunday, Nov. 1, as Congress has yet to pass a bill ending the twice-yearly clock change.
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Buying Your Own Health Insurance? Texas Open Enrollment Starts Nov. 1. Here Is What Changes for 2027
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Panna Maria, the Oldest Polish Settlement in America, Began With a Mass Under an Oak
On Christmas Eve 1854, Silesian families gave thanks under a live oak in Karnes County. Their church still stands beside it, and it is open every day.
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Reformation Day Is Oct. 31. Luther's First Thesis Still Calls Every Christian to Repent.
Many Protestants mark Reformation Day on Oct. 31, the traditional date Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses in Wittenberg in 1517.
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Texas Baptists Will Vote in Waco on Who Counts as a Cooperating Church and Who Decides
Messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas meet Nov. 15-17 in Waco. On the agenda: the first constitution rewrite in a decade, a reduced 2027 budget and voting by text message.
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Kermit Council Set to Finalize Voter-Approval Tax Rate and Ask Austin to Leave the Cap Alone
Thursday's second reading locks in a $0.342649 rate, the most the city can adopt without an election. Kermit's legislative wish list also opposes lowering that limit.
