Moore's order permits qualified farm and forestry haulers to use dyed diesel under state law and provides state-penalty relief for 30 days; hauling-permit relief is limited to state highways.

Mansfield's adopted city tax rate is at a 30-year low, while the budget plans additional city jobs.

Doors open at 9:30 a.m. for a planned Oct. 14 rally at Laughlin/Bullhead airport, though one outlet says the listing was gone.

Student services workers get raises and a $3,325 bonus, while 29,000 CSU faculty remain in fact-finding as negotiations continue.

Four of the five titles pulled from kids and teen sections went against staff recommendations at the Fort Mill meeting.

The Nov. 3 ballot measure would fund a 240-space deck split with the school district after construction ate into student parking.

Third Coast Bancshares is buying Great Plains Bancshares, creating a roughly $9 billion bank with footholds in both Dallas and Oklahoma City.

New Leash on Life's no-kill shelter plan for South Court Street is dead for now, founder Donna Burrell Pace says the group has nowhere else to go.

Building trades leaders say Sarahana Shrestha's push to municipalize Central Hudson and her nuclear stance cost her their backing.

A council member admits sending unredacted parish checks to a DA candidate, forcing officials to close a bank account.

Dallas is fighting to shield flight details on trips to New York, Montreal and Taiwan even as it furloughs its own workers.

The state-run board dropped the rate to $0.8421, but enrollment losses and a budget shortfall still loom over Houston ISD.

Chairman John Fervier says he never saw the letters; fellow member Janelle King says no one objected when they landed.