Texas

Roy Snipes and the local Catholic diocese are fighting new sections of border wall to protect a tiny, white chapel known as La Lomita.

Editor’s note: Marketplace’s Andy Uhler spent a week reporting about doing business on the Texas-Mexico border during a time of intense debate over U.S. immigration policy and the push by President Donald Trump to build a border wall. Below is the seventh entry from his reporter’s notebook. You can read the other entries here.  In some ways, […]

In Texas, energy companies are scrambling to find a home for the record amount of oil they’re producing.

A combinations of dense traffic and time-pressed truckers has led to a spike in fatal crashes.

The lawsuit filed by Houston residents whose homes were flooded could set precedent for disaster liability.

Here on the Texas-Mexico border, most people don’t think about the boundary as much more than an inconvenient passport check.

Texas is of course a big oil state, but it’s also home to a growing industry focused on reducing emissions of oil field methane, a climate change causing gas. But the Trump administration is loosening the rules on methane, which could leave these methane-reduction companies with a smaller market for their products and services. The […]

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Apple announced Thursday that it’s planning to build a new $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas, less than a mile from its existing campus. The company says it will also build new sites in three West Coast cities. The company says it’s on track to add 20,000 jobs in the next five years. We couldn’t […]

The new campus will be on a 133-acre plot located within 1 mile of the current facility.