Texas Board of Education could flip in January as Democrats near first majority since 1994

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — Texas Democrats are on the verge of taking control of the State Board of Education for the first time in three decades, a shift that could reshape decisions affecting millions of public school students. Democratic State Board of Education member Gustavo Reveles, who represents...

Black voters powered the Democratic breakthrough in Texas

The Democratic sweep of Texas’s two marquee races on Nov. 3 was built on the state’s Black voters, who backed Gina Hinojosa for governor and James Talarico for the U.S. Senate by overwhelming margins — higher, proportionally, than any other group, including Latino voters. Hinojosa defeated Republican...

St. Augustine’s Patrick H. Alexander Showcase grows as Texas basketball tradition

The Patrick H. Alexander Showcase returned for its 13th year, bringing 15 TAPPS teams from across Texas to Laredo for the season-opening tournament.

The Cloud Has a Texas Address

Every digital image leaves a little heat behind. A photograph opens on a phone; a video begins before we think to ask where it came from; a painting photographed in Houston appears seconds later on a screen in Seoul. Digital culture encourages the fantasy of effortless passage, and its vocabulary does much of the work. We call it the cloud. We stream. We connect wirelessly. We enter virtual space. The language floats somewhere above geography, weightless and faintly meteorological, even while the machinery supporting it presses firmly into the ground.

You mail your radon test kit after leaving it out overnight, but a university extension service says transaction tests need at least 48 hours

I’m Danny Tran, and you and I live here in Texas. As of early November 2026, I know the urge to put a DIY radon test kit out at bedtime, pick it up the next morning and call that chore done. I used to think overnight sounded like plenty of time for a small kit to do its job. It is an easy mistake to make when the part you do yourself looks so simple: set it down, leave it alone and send it in.

Texas capital reworks housing plan as high-opportunity areas get 11% of new affordable homes

"We're approaching 2027 and we know that conditions have shifted."

La Riv Announces First Expansion Beyond Texas

Chef and restaurateur Vira Chudasma is bringing her revered Texas eatery La Riv Wood Fired Italian to Arizona for its third location, marking the first expansion outside its home state. The company announced this week that it will be opening a restaurant in Scottsdale, although the exact location hasn’t been shared yet.

Multiple rounds of rain through Monday with occasional heavier downpours

SUNDAY: Periods of rain with cool temperatures. RAINFALL TOTALS: Most areas receive 1 to 3 inches through Monday night. IMPACTS: Ponding on roads and localized street flooding. NEXT WEEK: The sun returns with temps climbing back into the 70s. FORECAST. WIDESPREAD RAIN. A slow-moving storm system is producing widespread rain...

Rain Soaks Texas From the Big Bend and Hill Country to San Antonio, Austin and Bryan as a Flooding Threat Builds Over Corpus Christi, Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS — Rain is falling across a large part of Texas on Sunday, November 8, from the Big Bend and Concho Valley through the Hill Country and Brazos Valley and south to the Rio Grande Valley. Radar at 7:44 a.m. CST showed a wide area of showers and storms stretching from Alpine and San Angelo east to Austin, Killeen and Bryan, and south through San Antonio, Victoria, Corpus Christi and Brownsville. The rain is moving northeast, but drier air over the northern half of Texas is keeping most of it in place. Heavy rain continues locally, and a flooding threat is expected to build across the Coastal Bend, South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley through Sunday night and into Monday morning, November 9, as rainfall totals pile up.

A Still-Life Artist’s Extraordinary Texas Home Inspired by European Elegance

Step inside the beautiful Texas home of still life artist Kristie Shelton and her husband, Craig. Over the past 15 years, the couple has transformed their home into a richly layered haven filled with extraordinary European antiques, treasured artwork, and beautiful pieces collected throughout their travels. From centuries-old French furnishings...

BUMP! SET! SPIKE! THE ROAD TO STATE GETS INTENSE! TEXAS GULF COAST VOLLEYBALL TEAMS BATTLE THROUGH AN EMOTIONAL PLAYOFF WEEK!

🏐🔥 BUMP! SET! SPIKE! THE ROAD TO STATE GETS INTENSE! TEXAS GULF COAST VOLLEYBALL TEAMS BATTLE THROUGH AN EMOTIONAL PLAYOFF WEEK!​Clear Springs Advances, Dawson Ends Dickinson's Season, Clear Lake Survives a Five-Set Thriller, and Galveston Ball's Playoff Journey Comes to an End!By Bay Area Entertainer Sports | Saturday, November 7, 2026GALVESTON & BRAZORIA COUNTIES, TEXAS — The road to a Texas high school volleyball state championship is getting shorte [...]

Former A&M System Chancellor John Sharp to receive Texas Lyceum honor, weighs in on election

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Former Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp will receive the Texas Lyceum’s 2026 Stewardship of Texas Values Award on Thursday in Galveston. The Lyceum, a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide leadership organization, will present the award Nov. 12 in Galveston. Past chairs of the group...

Texas's 'Blue Tsunami' has former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke 'over the moon'

While Texas' populist roots may have laid the foundation for Democratic victories in the state, they weren't the only factor that helped Texas Democrats win on Tuesday. Former Texas congressman and presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke has helped pave the way for Democrat victories in the Lone Star State. You might remember his 2018 bid to unseat longstanding Republican Senator Ted Cruz. Ultimately, he lost by just a few percentage points. In 2022, he ran against Governor Greg Abbott and again lost, that time by only a slightly larger margin. Beto O'Rourke joins us now. Welcome.

Texas officials acknowledge problems with voter registration system, will work with locals on a fix

This coverage is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan news organization covering local election administration and voting access. Sign up for Votebeat Texas’ free newsletters here. After more than a year of complaints, Texas officials are acknowledging the state’s upgraded voter registration management system hasn’t met performance expectations. The...

Texas nonprofit Operation Preying on Predators says it has helped rescue 200+ children

Abilene, Texas — For six years, a Texas nonprofit has worked to protect children by helping locate missing and runaway kids and exposing suspected online predators. Operation Preying on Predators, founded by Jason Hack and Chad Mitchell, now operates across the state of Texas. Hack, the organization’s co-founder, said the group has helped rescue more than 200 children.

VERNAS HELP FOUNDATION CONGRATULATES HISTORIC SLATE OF BLACK WOMEN LEADERS ELECTED IN NORTH TEXAS

DALLAS-FORT WORTH, TX— Standing at the absolute forefront of community celebration, The Vernas Help Foundation is proud to be the first to extend its warmest and most enthusiastic congratulations to the powerhouse slate of Black women leaders who made history during Tuesday night’s election. In an unprecedented turning point for representation and equitable justice, voters across Dallas and Tarrant Counties have completely reshaped the landscape of leadership in Texas.As an organization dedicated to uplifting our community, we proudly lead the region in honoring these phenomenal, history-making executives and jurists:

Beautiful weather in the cards this week for North Texas

An upper-level low is moving eastward over South Texas throughout the day.

USDA Pours $21 Million Into Texas, Eight Other States To Open Up Private Land Access

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing $21 million in 10 additional projects nationwide, including one in Texas, aimed at opening up more private land for hunting, fishing and other outdoor recreation. The money flows through a federal competitive grant program for state and tribal governments, which may use up to 25% of funds to incentivize landowners to improve wildlife habitat on lands enrolled in public-access programs, and this latest round touches nine states altogether.

Kenzie’s Kindness Journey: Young girl delivers 5,300 letters to HPD in statewide mission

Through "Kenzie’s Kindness Journey," young McKenzie Harrington is working to deliver personalized thank-you letters to all 699 police departments across Texas. Stop number 49 brought the family to Houston Police Department headquarters, where they delivered 5,300 cards to ensure every sworn officer received one. The stop pushed their statewide...

Stroud's third TD pass of first half marks Kayshon Boutte's first score as a Texan