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Rio Grande Valley Advocates Urge Congress to Restore Protections for Public Lands In Path of Border Wall – Inside Climate News

Advocates are calling for the Homeland Security funding bill, currently being negotiated, to include protections for Texas parks and cultural heritage sites in the...

Texas state leaders target school walkouts as students rally for Houston teen detained by ICE | Houston Public Media

Bianca Seward/Houston Public Media More than 100 students rallied Tuesday outside of Houston ISD's Sam Houston Math, Science, and Technology Center calling for the release...

Fired after gender identity lesson, professor sues Texas A&M, arguing her free speech rights were violated | Houston Public Media

Texas A&M Website Months after Texas A&M fired a professor over a gender identity lesson, she is suing the university, alleging administrators knowingly violated her...

Texas faith leaders divided over school prayer, Bible reading periods as deadline for SB 11 approaches | Houston Public Media

Andrew Schneider/Houston Public Media Texas public school boards and charter school governing bodies have until March 1 to decide whether to set aside time for...

Abbott expands list of banned technologies at UH – The Cougar

Lily Huynh/The Cougar Twenty-six technologies have been prohibited for Texas state employees and devices under an order issued by Gov. Greg Abbott on Jan. 26....

‘Devastating’: Texas A&M Eliminates Women’s and Gender Studies Degree Program

University leaders also said six courses were canceled, and 48 exceptions were granted under new rules on race and gender. Originally published by The Texas...

Texas dropped ABA law school accreditation after 4 decades. Can it come up with a better system? | Houston Public Media

Nelson Locke thinks he might have inspired some of this. The 75-year-old lawyer spent three years asking the Texas Board of Law Examiners to admit...

Liam Conejo Ramos is back home in Minneapolis | Houston Public Media

Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio’s newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning. Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his...

Federal judge orders release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father | Houston Public Media

Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio’s newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning. A federal judge has issued a...

Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Facilities in Texas Emitted 1.6 Million Pounds of Regulated Pollutants During Last Week’s Icy Weather – Inside Climate News

As freezing temperatures swept over West Texas last week, leaky pipeline systems in the Permian Basin of West Texas began to suck in air,...