The settlement directs TCP Group to repair equipment and to pay $12.6 million in penalties for clean air violations at its Southeast Texas facility.
Dallas is the sixth Texas city the attorney general has sued this year over marijuana decriminalization measures that he says conflicts with state law.
The county took the extraordinary step of taking on this new debt after voters previously rejected a similar proposal.
Texas AG successfully stopped an attempt by State legislators to create a precedent allowing for a legislative committee to delay an execution, settling a critical Constitutional question and ensuring justice for the two-year-old murder victim in the 2002 case.
The order is in response to “Operation Fox Hunt,” a Chinese government initiative intended to root out corruption but in practice has been used to intimidate Chinese citizens living abroad.
Local leaders and rural revitalization experts say Texas’ smallest towns can survive — despite a shift to urban and suburban counties — but it will take investments.
The amendment to a 1944 treaty will help Mexico catch up with its water deliveries to the U.S. and might help Rio Grande Valley farmers devastated by low rainfall.
The brief argues that the US Government appointment of the special prosecutor, Jack Smith, directly implicates Texas’s fundamental interest in preventing unlawful federal action.
This past week (10/26/24-11/1/24), Webb, Maverick, and Hidalgo Counties experienced human smuggling events.
Farmers say they want the water, but not if it goes against the allotment they need for the spring planting season.
Denton has renamed itself Halloween, Texas, and has planned 31 days of events to drive up tourism and family entertainment.
In the first test of Senate Bill 14, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has accused Dr. May Lau of providing testosterone to at least 21 teens.
The South Texas city is the latest to grapple with aging water infrastructure, which officials suggested could have been the cause for the E. coli outbreak.
U.S. District Judge Janis Jack, the state’s de facto foster care czar, has been overseeing the case since 2011.
The new videos largely affirm prior reporting and investigations that detailed law enforcement’s failures to confront the gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers.
The Texas Transportation Commission has approved historic funding for ship channel improvement projects that will support Texas’ economic growth, increase trade, and generate jobs.
The attorney general argues that the popular short form video app has not complied with a new state law that seeks to protect children who are active online.
One group estimated more than 568,000 cats and dogs entered shelters in 2023. About 82,000 cats and dogs were euthanized.
Texas DPS announces the death of a Highway Patrol Trooper following a traffic crash in Ector County.
Workers who load and unload shipping containers from cargo ships are at an impasse in labor contract negotiations.