The petting zoo has moved, reshaping an animal-focused fair visit
Little Lone Stars Land is the new petting-zoo destination, while the Birthing Barn and Discovery Farm offer separate stops.
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The Texas Comptroller's office has deployed advanced account validation and analytics to strengthen electronic payment safeguards and prevent fraud across all state agencies.
Little Lone Stars Land is the new petting-zoo destination, while the Birthing Barn and Discovery Farm offer separate stops.
Federal emergency officials have expanded a major disaster declaration across Texas, adding four more counties to receive public assistance funding following severe summer storms and flooding.
County election offices across Texas are processing more than 200,000 delayed voter registration records after a state portal technical glitch held up driver's license submissions ahead of the October deadline.
Attorney General Ken Paxton initiated a statewide enforcement investigation into hundreds of commercial data centers across 18 Texas counties over failure to submit mandatory water use surveys.
A divided Fifth Circuit panel ruled that federal restrictions barring direct out-of-state handgun sales violate the Second Amendment, invalidating key provisions of the 1968 Gun Control Act.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a nationwide settlement with Sprouts Farmers Market, prohibiting the grocery chain from misting produce with the chemical sanitizer ProduceMaxx.
Governor Greg Abbott has directed the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to freeze all environmental permits for data center projects until an electrical grid reliability audit is completed.
Texas state officials have appointed a 13-member higher education working group tasked with creating a statewide framework for accelerated three-year bachelor's degrees aimed at lowering college costs.
A formal legal opinion issued by the Texas Attorney General clarifies that school district police must refer suspected abuse cases to outside law enforcement.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security approved $7.5 billion in federal funding to reimburse Texas for expenditures incurred under Operation Lone Star.
Federal regulators approved nearly $12 billion in Medicaid funding for Texas hospitals, physicians, and rural clinics following extensive intergovernmental negotiations.
The Texas Department of Insurance outlined new regulatory mandates targeting escalating residential insurance rates, barring carriers from denying coverage solely based on roof age.
The Texas Supreme Court has barred Galveston County from using newly redrawn precinct lines in November, ruling that changing voting maps mid-election cycle violates state law.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas has approved a 370-mile transmission line linking South Texas to the Permian Basin, ordering utilities to work with landowners to mitigate property impacts.
A Texas state district judge has found TikTok liable for deceiving parents about platform safety and exposing minors to explicit material, marking the first time a state has established liability against the social media company.
Texas has paused new data center approvals as agencies review their water and power needs.
League City will hold a referendum on the use of Flock Safety's cameras in November.
A federal judge has denied an emergency motion to block Texas' THC product ban.
SpaceX plans a semiconductor plant in Grimes County, with a notable gap in investment estimates.
Ken Paxton and James Talarico have introduced separate affordability proposals ahead of the election.

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