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1 week ago | 
texastribune.org | Berenice Garcia |Carlos Ramos |Ayden Runnels |Jessica Yu
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. McALLEN — Hundreds of people lined up near this border city’s federal courthouse Saturday, waving American flags and holding signs criticizing President Donald Trump and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It was a loud scene as anti-Trump chants were often drowned out by drivers honking to show support for the protesters’ cause.
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3 weeks ago | 
texastribune.org | Jayme Lozano |Carlos Ramos |Jess Huff |Berenice Garcia
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. There were big wins for rural Texas this legislative session as lawmakers dedicated more funding to health care, struggling farmers and emergency management. More than 3 million Texans live in rural pockets strewn across the state, from the Piney Woods in East Texas to far-flung corners in the Panhandle.
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1 month ago | 
texastribune.org | Alejandra Martinez |Jayme Lozano |Carlos Ramos |Berenice Garcia
The latest development in a years-long push by South Texas farmers and officials to get Mexico to fulfill a 1944 treaty would still fall short of what is owed. Full Story Credit: Carlos Kosienski/Sipa USA via REUTERS
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2 months ago | 
sanangelolive.com | Lucas Banda |Carlos Ramos
By Carlos Nogueras Ramos, The Texas TribuneApril 8, 2025"Renewable energy companies face little regulation in Texas. A state lawmaker wants to change that." was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
texastribune.org | Alejandra Martinez |Alejandra Martinez |Alejandro Serrano |Berenice Garcia |Carlos Ramos |Joshua Fechter
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. In Texas, undocumented people have built apartment complexes and skyscrapers that changed skylines. They have picked fruits and vegetable in fields, cooked in restaurant kitchens, cleaned hospitals and started small businesses. They have become stitched into communities from El Paso to Beaumont.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
inkl.com | Carlos Ramos
State Rep. Brooks Landgraf, R-Odessa, wants to spend millions of tax dollars collected from oil and gas companies to help clean up West Texas after years of oil and gas production. (Credit: Evan L'Roy/The Texas Tribune) Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
texastribune.org | Carlos Ramos
Sign up for the We the Texans newsletter to receive twice-monthly updates on our year-long initiative dedicated to boosting civic engagement and chronicling how democracy is experienced in Texas. ODESSA — Cal Hendrick, an insurance attorney pledging to return the City Council’s attention to everyday issues, defeated Javier Joven in this West Texas city’s mayoral race. “I told people I had a vision. I have a job to do,” Hendrick said.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
texastribune.org | Carlos Ramos
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Unable to keep up with the growing number of leaking and erupting wells in the state’s oil fields, the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the state’s oil and gas industry, has asked lawmakers for an additional $100 million in emergency funding — which would be equal to about 44% of the agency’s entire two-year budget.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
texastribune.org | Carlos Ramos
The most important Texas news,sent weekday mornings. Key coverage Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. FORT STOCKTON — Zachary Swick plucked a pecan from one of the 78,000 trees at a sprawling West Texas farm — a rare sight in the desert known for oil rigs and pump jacks.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
texastribune.org | Carlos Ramos
Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. ODESSA — A Houston-based energy company has sealed a hemorrhaging well in West Texas 19 days after it exploded, sending a torrent of water and other chemicals dozens of feet into the air. The company, Kinder Morgan, said that workers are no longer detecting emissions of hydrogen sulfide, a toxic and deadly gas.
