In case anyone needed another sign Gov. Greg Abbott is nervous about November, he announced plans to hold an “affordability roundtable” Tuesday afternoon in the Republican-leaning Houston suburb of Pasadena. The Republican governor’s sudden interest in affordability comes after a $10 million ad buy in which he positioned himself as a tireless defender against Democrats’ […]
Embattled attorney Martin Phipps was released on a $10,000 bond Sunday following his arrest on a charge that he made a terroristic threat against his 16-year-old daughter, the Express-News reports, citing police records and a source familiar with the matter. San Antonio Police received a complaint Aug. 16 from the young woman alleging that Phipps […]
Social media users are ripping Ken Paxton, Texas’ Republican attorney general, for rocking a $41,000 watch during a San Antonio campaign stop this Saturday as he tries to drum up support for his U.S. Senate campaign. The barrage of insults comes as questions swirl around how Paxton amassed a multimillion-dollar real estate portfolio on a […]
San Antonio haunted house theme park 13th Floor is offering up new nightmares to kick off spooky season, and the new attractions promise to be more ghoulish than ever. The downtown haunt, rated one of the nation’s five scariest haunted houses by USA Today, is known for its cinematic set design and unnerving narratives. But […]
Some 20,000 CPS Energy customers remain without power following heavy rain and violent winds that struck San Antonio on Friday night, officials with the city-owned utility said during a Sunday morning press conference. That total is around 18% of the 112,000 customers left without power in the immediate wake of the storm, which brought down […]
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. The 12 largest gas power projects planned in Texas are all specifically intended to run data centers, according to data released Tuesday by Global Energy Monitor, a global nonprofit […]
In 2023, the Texas Legislature unanimously passed a law raising auto insurance costs for Texans by $1 to combat rampant catalytic converter theft. Three years later, a little-known state agency has devoted at least $30 million of that fee toward supercharging the state’s Flock surveillance network, placing cameras along highways and streets from El Paso […]
Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare said Friday that federal officials have not provided his office any information about the fatal shooting last month of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by immigration officers in Houston, so he plans to take the evidence his office has collected so far to a grand jury in the “next few weeks,” […]
State Rep. James Talarico is going up with his first negative television ad of the U.S. Senate race — a 30-second spot attacking Attorney General Ken Paxton over allegations of corruption. Talarico has frequently criticized Paxton on the campaign trail over his 2023 impeachment by the Texas House and the growth of his net worth […]
A federal judge in San Antonio granted a temporary restraining order Friday against the Department of Homeland Security, pausing construction of the White House’s controversial border barriers in Big Bend National Park. U.S. District Judge Orlando L. Garcia called for a pause on construction of any kind in the prized national park until Sept. 15 […]