The Latest Breaking News from Texas

Aug Nymex natural gas (NGQ23 ) on Wednesday closed down -0.121 (-4.34%), adding to Tuesday's decline of -3.56%. July futures expired on Wednesday. Nat-gas prices on Wednesday fell sharply for a second day on forecasts that excessive heat in Texas will start to moderate this weekend, according to Atmospheric G2,...

It’s excruciatingly hot in North Texas, and a weather phenomenon called a “heat dome” is to blame.

Reed, a Black man on death row for more than 25 years, has gained international support for his claims that he did not kill 19-year-old Stacey Stites, a white woman. Another appeal over DNA testing of evidence is still pending.

Detroit extends air quality alert through Thursday while evacuation orders in effect in Arizona as crews fight Diamond fire

"Only the Sahara Desert & Persian Gulf area will be as hot or hotter than the Lone Star State,” according to meteorologist Ben Noll.

A National Weather Service meteorologist says West Texas could see scorching temperatures that are blamed for nearly a dozen deaths return to a more typical level by the weekend as a heat dome is expected to move eastward

Diarrhea was rampant, children were losing weight, and parents had to clean soiled clothing in sinks because guards would not provide them with clean items, mothers at an overcrowded Texas border facility in Laredo told Department of Homeland Security investigators last month, according to an internal report obtained by The…

As an 8-year-old was dying in Border Patrol custody last month, officials at the Texas detention center where she had been held were complaining about the facility's "overuse of hospitalization," according to an internal report obtained by The Times.

Five cases of malaria have been detected in the US in the last two months