A Houston-area city has been trying to produce records showing how $2 million in federal recovery money was spent after 2008’s Hurricane Ike. The Galveston County Daily News reported Monday that poor record keeping in La Marque has administrators scrambling …
Firefighter training following a deadly explosion in West, money to arm Texas prosecutors and an extra $500 million for public schools were ways that House lawmakers Friday considered spending the final dollars in the current state budget. Not all the …
The deadly Central Texas fertilizer plant explosion has now spawned six lawsuits, including one from the family of a volunteer firefighter killed in the blast. Fourteen people died and more than 200 were injured by the April 17 blast in …
The state’s consumer advocate has challenged State Farm Insurance Co.’s 20 percent rate hike for Texas homeowners as being too high. The Dallas Morning News reports the hearing before two administrative law judges in Austin could last through Friday. Public …
The blast at a Texas fertilizer plant made perhaps its biggest mark on an apartment building across the railroad tracks from the site. The apartment building’s roof was collapsed in the Wednesday blast, its windows blown out and chunks of …
Investigators say as many as 2,000 pieces of mail have been damaged or destroyed in an apparent electrical fire that burned a South Texas post office. Corpus Christi Fire Department officials say nobody was hurt in the accidental blaze and …
A Republican lawmaker says the state needs a cybersecurity coordinator to lessen the state’s vulnerability to hackers. The House Technology Committee on Monday left pending two of the chief bills aimed at cybersecurity this session. State Rep. Lyle Larson of …
More than $31.2 million was recently awarded to the state of Texas by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for reimbursement of costs to fight wildfires in Bastrop, Cass, Coke, Grimes, Jeff Davis, Kimble, King, Knox, Marion, Montgomery, Palo Pinto, …
Texas regulators have fined a hotel and a contractor nearly $86,000 over the 2011 death of a housekeeper who fell six stories down a service elevator shaft. The case involves the Crockett Hotel in San Antonio and Otis Elevator Co. …
Thirty-seven percent of Texans say Lone Star State spring storms scare them, and more than a third say they feel the weather is getting worse year after year, according to a new survey by Allstate Insurance Company. The number of …