The Texas Commission on the Arts and the Texas Cultural Trust Award Grants to Outstanding Student Artists AUSTIN, Texas – March 5, 2026 – The Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) and the Texas Cultural Trust (TXCT) are proud to announce the 2026 class of Young Masters. Young Masters is a grant program that provides exemplary students in grades 8-11 with financial support to pursue advanced study…

By Sneha Dey, The Texas Tribune March 5, 2026 Texas declined Thursday to take over the Wichita Falls school district, which had been at risk of receiving the state’s most severe form of intervention over years of academic underperformance. Kirby Middle School triggered the potential of a takeover. Under the state’s school accountability system, five…

By Berenice Garcia, The Texas Tribune March 5, 2026 EDINBURG — The Texas Supreme Court pondered how far the state can go in limiting access to a public beach during oral arguments Thursday in a case involving the closure of Boca Chica Beach for SpaceX’s rocket launches. Rio Grande Valley environmentalist and indigenous groups are…

SHERMAN, Texas –A Mexican national illegally living in Dallas has been sentenced to federal prison for trafficking methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Jay R. Combs.   Francisco Ortuno, 29, a Mexican national, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and was sentenced to 170…

SHERMAN, Texas –A Dallas woman has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for trafficking methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Jay R. Combs.   Samantha Mendoza, 35, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison…

By Joshua Fechter, The Texas Tribune March 6, 2026 In 2020, Raysall Wiggins decided she no longer wanted to rent a home in the Houston neighborhood where she grew up. She wanted to buy. “I wanted to have something of my own, something that I could eventually pass down to my children,” said Wiggins, who…

The Texas Commission on the Arts and the Texas Cultural Trust Award Grants to Outstanding Student Artists AUSTIN, Texas – March 5, 2026 – The Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) and the Texas Cultural Trust (TXCT) are proud to announce the 2026 class of Young Masters. Young Masters is a grant program that provides exemplary students in grades 8-11 with financial support to pursue advanced study…

Local roots run deep for state’s largest blood program  BEDFORD, TEXAS (March 5, 2026) – For 75 years, Carter BloodCare has been on a mission to save lives by making transfusion possible. On March 6, 1951, J.K. and Susie Wadley chartered the nonprofit Wadley Research Institute and Blood Bank in Dallas, the genesis of Carter…

With fresh reporting that the ongoing US assault on Iran could be costing $1 billion per day in taxpayer money, opposition lawmakers, candidates for office, and outside critics are ripping the Trump administration and his allies in Congress for the financial recklessness of the unlawful and unprovoked attack on the Iranian people. Read more: While…