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The Texas Fish Art Contest is open to K-12 students through Feb. 28. Here is how to enter, what the rules require, and why the 2027 focus species is a fish most Texans have never seen.
Guinea-Bissau police searched the offices of researchers praised by RFK Jr. and seized hepatitis B vaccines, amid a dispute over a CDC-funded newborn study.
Thursday's council agenda pairs a county funding deal with a $2.35 million construction contract. The packet lists three different figures for the engineering fee.
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The new Harvest Fuel Relief program will make one-time payments based on planted acres. Rates for major crops come in November, and Texas specialty growers and fishermen are invited to send in their fuel costs.
As tax bills arrive, appraisal districts estimate that well over 250,000 homeowners in Dallas, Harris, Travis and Bexar counties alone may be eligible for a homestead exemption they have not claimed. It is free to file, and you may be able to get refunds for past years.
Gov. Greg Abbott told the TCEQ on Sept. 21 to halt all data center permits. A watchdog analysis counts 35 permitting actions since then, mostly for gas power plants meant to serve data centers. The agency and governor had not responded.
A five-member state board meets this morning to open bids from an online oil and gas lease sale and act on 29 drilling requests from major Permian and East Texas operators. The money flows to the Permanent School Fund.
Formula 1 returns to Circuit of the Americas this week. State records show Texas paid $40.98 million toward the 2025 U.S. Grand Prix, the most since at least 2015, even as the attendance certified to the state fell for a fourth straight year.
Christina Applegate told her MeSsy podcast listeners she was misdiagnosed with MS. Her symptoms have not improved, and doctors will investigate the cause.
Ann Hornaday, the Washington Post's longtime chief film critic and a 2008 Pulitzer Prize finalist, died Sunday of glioblastoma. She was 66.
Richard Riehle, the character actor best known as Tom Smykowski in "Office Space," died of natural causes in Los Angeles. He was 78.
Collards shrug off cold, taste sweeter after a frost and can produce all winter near the coast. Here is AgriLife's care and harvest advice and a simple skillet method.
Warm soil and cooler air make October and November the best window to plant in Brown County. Here is the agent's three-step method and when to sow wildflower seed for spring.
October is garlic month in Hunt County, and AgriLife's dates leave room for turnips, mustard, carrots, spinach and radishes into November.
Austin County's master gardeners host a free lunch talk on planting native fall wildflowers. October is prime time for bluebonnet seed, and two trusted Texas sources disagree on one step.
The Native Plant Society of Texas New Braunfels chapter holds its fall sale Saturday at Headwaters at the Comal. Here is what will be on the tables and how a few favorites grow.
Christina Applegate told her MeSsy podcast listeners she was misdiagnosed with MS. Her symptoms have not improved, and doctors will investigate the cause.
Thursday's council agenda pairs a county funding deal with a $2.35 million construction contract. The packet lists three different figures for the engineering fee.
Harris, Dallas, Montgomery, Ellis, Bell and McLennan counties all reported record first-day turnout. Consultants on both sides say it is too soon to know who benefits. Here is what they are watching, and why your vote still counts the same.
A family-owned New Jersey food importer sued Tuesday to block Trump's Section 338 tariffs on Canadian goods and recover duties paid, with interest.
Montgomery County cast 18,837 ballots on the first day of early voting—16.5% more than the comparable opening day in 2022. Willis led all county sites, and 11 days remain before the November 3 election.
Collards shrug off cold, taste sweeter after a frost and can produce all winter near the coast. Here is AgriLife's care and harvest advice and a simple skillet method.
Ann Hornaday, the Washington Post's longtime chief film critic and a 2008 Pulitzer Prize finalist, died Sunday of glioblastoma. She was 66.
The 1958-born festival wraps up Oct. 22-25 with Trades Days, an antique car parade, a pet show, a beard contest, a hot pepper showdown and a Piney Woods drive.
Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias, 56, a lawful permanent resident who raised three children in Dallas, died Saturday at the Rio Grande Processing Center. He is the seventh person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year. Here is what each side says.
