Lawmakers added $1 to Texans’ car insurance policies. That money paid for thousands of Flock cameras.

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,

Data center developers in Texas plan massive new gas power projects

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

Prosecutor will take Houston ICE shooting case to grand jury

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 jur

James Talarico to air first TV ad attacking Ken Paxton in Senate race

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 an