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The Texas Railroad Commission has suspended nearly two dozen permits that allow oil and gas companies to inject saltwater into the ground, which regulators say has contributed to increased earthquakes of greater magnitude in West Texas.

When you’re a game warden, it’s all hands on deck when things go awry, and severe weather is no exception.

After the Texas Legislature spent much of 2023 in session, a bevy of new laws go into effect on New Year’s Day, though some have been delayed by lawsuits challenging their constitutionality.

On a recent cool windy morning I was walking around the front yard under my two big pecan trees and it brought back memories of a long ago time.

Is this not the weirdest week of the year? You don’t know if you’re coming or going or how that piece of cheese got into your hand.

As many of us prepare to celebrate Christmas, while the world is ablaze with war and suffering, it is easy to feel comforted by our relatively safe and cozy lives within our relatively peaceful country. There is nothing wrong with that, in fact our gratitude should really be boundless as we see how others are forced to live, through no fault of their own.