‘Total war’: Lawmakers look to shake up Texas politics next legislative session
One year after Ken Paxton’s acquittal, the political rifts have yet to settle. Some lawmakers hope for major changes in state government next year.
Power outages bring frustration to New Orleans residents post-Francine
Gulf Coast residents are cleaning up the mess left by Francine, which struck Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane.
Thousands of people without power in New Orleans as Francine drenches southern states
Two days after Hurricane Francine knocked out power for nearly half a million people in Louisiana, Alexandra Canary was still ...
Francine’s heavy rainfall forces dramatic water rescues as even more flooding is on the horizon
Francine made landfall along southern Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane before weakening to a tropical storm and unleashing flooding rainfall and gusty winds on the region Wednesday night. The storm ...
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Abbott says potential power outages from Tropical Storm Francine will be restored within hours
Texas isn’t expected to take a direct hit when the storm makes landfall as a hurricane. But storm surge and dangerous winds ...
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Extreme Texas heat puts pressure on the power grid. Would delaying the school year help?
Texas Rep. Jared Patterson, R-Frisco, shared a potential legislative proposal last week to delay the start of the school year until after Labor Day. In a post to his account on X, formerly known ...
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Tropical Storm Hone soaks Hawaii and leaves thousands without power
Without your ... people lost power across Hawaii before 3am local time, according to outage tracker PowerOutageUS. Hawaiian Electric, which serves 95 percent of the 1.4 million residents on ...
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Texas Could Change School Calendar To Help Power Grid
A Texas lawmaker ... nearly three million people at the height of the outages, according to the Associated Press. A number of people, especially in Houston, went days without power during the ...
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Texas judge pauses Biden plan to offer ‘amnesty’ to 500K illegal migrants married to US citizens
A Texas federal judge on Monday put a temporary pause on President Biden’s plan to fast track permanent residency for illegal migrants married to American citizens. US District Judge J.
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Texas electric grid remains unreliable, despite stellar summer performance, needs new rules
Texans made it through a record-setting August heatwave without the state’s grid ... than 20,000 megawatts of electricity, enough power for 5 million homes from about 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. During ...
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Hurricane Beryl-related death toll in Harris County rises to at least 20
knocking out power to nearly three million residents in southeast Texas at the height of the outages. Among the deaths, officials said many people died in homes that were left without air ...
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Hawaiian Electric restores power to most customers affected by Hone
About 1, 800 Big Island customers are still without power, company officials said at about 9 :30 p.m. Company officials said 74 Upcountry Maui customers will remain without power overnight “due ...