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A few months after Texas’ governor challenged universities to boost their space research output, NASA has selected UH for a new space research center.
A federal bankruptcy court ordered the building to be sold after its owner filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The bridge connects the city of Galveston to Pelican Island, which is home to Texas A&M University Galveston and multiple businesses.
Khan Academy is working with school districts across the state to implement a new program backed by the ExxonMobil Foundation.
Robins Landing, a 127-acre master-planned community, eventually will feature 468 single-family homes, a 12-acre park and a commercial area.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, one of the largest insurance companies in Texas, wants to create jobs and drive economic growth in Houston.
Transwestern will soon begin construction work on The RO, which will encompass about 740,000 square feet and include a luxury hotel.
A vinyl window manufacturer owned by one of Houston's largest publicly traded companies has shuttered a plant in Carrollton, Texas.
The Houston area topped Dallas and the rest of the nation in residential building permits last year. Here's what driving the boom.
The financial firm will open a new office in Williams Tower, which is located in the Uptown/Galleria area, according to a public filing.
Mayor Whitmire's budget could cause Houston to fall further into the red, official warns.
The fluffy gas giant is the second-lightest planet discovered to date.
A recent report found Elizabeth Fagen's husband guilty of sexual harassment.
Directing district funds is "not only allowed, but anticipated by Texas' education law."
The city does not yet know when the bridge might reopen.
The recent heightened solar activity is due to the Sun approaching its explosive peak.
State Rep. Jon Rosenthal and the Texas governor are at odds over public school funding.
John Whitmire's new plan is heavy on police funding but light on revenue specifics.
The veteran meteorologist announced his plans to step away from the camera on Monday.
'He's treating our public school system as his own personal piggy bank.'
While impossible to predict, the phenomena could return to the Lone Star State.
The Texas governor said schools may have to wait until 2025 for a financial lifeline.
'You have shown us your rears.'
Thousands of hemp dispensaries have sprung up in Texas in the years since consumable hemp became legal.
"You'll be shocked to hear this, but it's not me that's responsible for this."
The soft drink business is taking a hit during the coronavirus pandemic.
Congress is currently working on a new coronavirus relief package that could potentially benefit millions of Americans, and some Texas mayors are calling on the delegation to make sure the measure includes "direct and flexible fiscal assistance to all cities across the nation."
Abigail Disney said she is in full support of taxing wealthy people in the aftermath of Covid-19.
The Federal Reserve is now blaming the coronavirus pandemic for another shortage: coins.
It's a day for the Black community to flex its economic muscle.
The coronavirus pandemic robbed Texas of its spring tourism season and now threatens to steal summer, too.
The state unemployment rate is 13 percent.
As of the last week of May, nearly 650,000 claimants were still waiting for their unemployment benefits to be approved or denied.
About 94,000 people in Texas applied for unemployment benefits last week, a slight tick up from 90,000 the previous week, but well below the spikes in late March and early April that surpassed 300,000 per week, according to the Department of Labor.
Texas is reinstating its requirement that unemployed people must be actively searching for work in order to continue receiving unemployment benefits on July 6.
About 90,000 people in Texas applied for unemployment benefits last week, the first time claims have dropped below 100,000 per week in more than two months.
While manufacturing continued to contract in May, the pace of decline slowed compared to April.
Key sectors of the Texas economy were among the hardest hit nationally in April, according the Labor Department's employment report. Texas reports state and regional employment statistics for April on May 22.
Another nearly 250,000 people filed for first-time unemployment benefits in Texas last week, according to a weekly report from the Department of Labor, as measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus combined with the worst oil bust in history have left 2 million Texans jobless.
Since March when business shutdowns began to prevent exposure to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, more than 33 million in the U.S. have filed applications for benefits.
Last week alone, 3.1 million Americans filed a claim.
While the figures have slowed from their peak of nearly 7 million claims per week in the U.S. at the end of March, weekly first-time claims are still about 15 times higher than pre-pandemic levels. The total number of people collecting benefits is well over three times the peak of the Great Recession.
In Texas, the Texas Workforce Commission, which administers unemployment benefits, has received three times the number of claims submitted in the state during all of 2019.
Even with the huge numbers of claims, the data still likely understates the extent of economic damage from the coronavirus in Texas and across the U.S., since overwhelmed state websites and phone lines prevent an untold number of people from filing...
A data center outage Thursday afternoon temporarily threw the Texas Workforce Commission — and other state agencies — offline as they were working to process the thousands of claims.
