Safety, freedom and no misgendering: inside the Texas summer camp for trans kids

For the first time in his life, 17-year-old Alastair Mendoza didn’t think twice about jumping in the water. He kayaked through tangles of reeds, taking in the schools of minnows beneath him and the hawks overhead. He splashed around with friends he had …

Inside a Texas summer camp for LGBTQ+ kids – in pictures

Texas Property Owners Have One Final Appeal Option

O'Connor discusses how Texas property owners have one final appeal option. HOUSTON, TX, UNITED STATES, August 4, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- While the deadline to file property tax appeals in Texas passed on May 15, it has taken months …

Approved 2027 Texas water plan calls for $1.7B in regional water supply strategies

Texas water planners are proposing that local governments in Northeast Texas undertake $1.7 billion in strategies to increase water supplies and reduce water loss by 2080. State water planners also are calling for greater protection of an East Texas bayou …

Texas Seniors Lost Medicare Advantage Plans in 2026 — Humana Just Announced 600,000 More Exits for 2027

Humana exited 194 counties nationally heading into 2026 — including markets across Texas — forcing hundreds of thousands of seniors to find new coverage during open enrollment last fall. Aetna discontinued 90 Medicare Advantage plans across 34 states. …

Professors sue Texas A&M System over limits on teaching race, gender

Never miss a story! The Texas Tribune's daily newsletter gives readers the most essential Texas news. Sign up for The Brief. Four professors and a national faculty group asked a federal judge Monday to block the Texas A&M University System’s …

Texas data center approval halt scrambles grid plans

Data center developers and critics are reckoning with what a new data center pause in Texas will mean — and how possible state legislation could further slow massive construction plans. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who is up for reelection this fall, …

James Talarico Tests the Democratic Wilderness at the Texas Border

James Talarico is asking me if my hand is OK, and I’m trying to laugh it off. We’re stopped at the site of a collapsed water well in the craggy outskirts of Alpine, Texas. Behind us, the red and ochre cliffs of Big Bend National Park glow in the late …

Why Texas Can’t Afford to Ignore the New Trade War

Texas doesn’t get much say on U.S. trade policy. Like every other state, it must operate within the rules established in Washington. Protectionists had the upper hand for long stretches of history. Since shortly after World War II, the United States …

Texas Orders Statewide Audit of AI Data Center Projects

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday ordered a statewide audit of data center projects in ERCOT’s interconnection queue, tightening oversight of AI infrastructure as proposed electric demand continues to soar. In a directive to the Public Utility Commission of …