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Dec 30, 2024 · A new state law says drivers will no longer need to get an annual vehicle safety inspection starting Jan. 1, 2025. But in urban counties across Texas, emissions tests are still required to get that registration sticker.

Dec 13, 2024 · McALLEN, Texas — SpaceX is launching a new mission: making its Starbase site a new Texas city. Billionaire Elon Musk 's company on Thursday sent a letter to local officials requesting an election to turn what it calls Starbase — the South Texas site where SpaceX builds and launches its massive Starship rockets — into an incorporated city.

Dec 26, 2024 · Christmas has come and gone, and San Antonio residents are asked to dispose of their live Christmas trees to be recycled into mulch.. The San Antonio Solid Waste Management Department will have several live tree drop-off locations during the first two weeks of January.

4 days ago · COMMUNITY REPRESENTATION STATEMENT Community-founded and community-supported, TPR strives to reflect our community in our staffing, board of directors, community advisory board, and in the educational, informational, and cultural content we provide. As a public media organization, TPR’s mission is to engage, inspire and inform, to empower our community to make life better.

Sep 26, 2024 · Judge Sid Harle ordered Judge Stephanie Boyd of the 187th District Court recused from the high-profile trial of three former San Antonio police officers. Harle agreed with the defense attorneys who argued her impartiality was in doubt.

Dec 23, 2024 · Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick took to X on Wednesday, claiming President Joe Biden was attempting to auction off materials intended for construction of a border wall “for pennies on the dollar in secret.” Some members of Congress made similar claims on social media and in interviews that the Biden administration was selling pieces of usable material to stifle wall-building efforts just a ...

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May 24, 2024 · The construction in Uvalde for the new elementary school is still underway and is on track to be completed in Fall 2025. The new school broke ground in 2023 following the Robb Elementary School massacre that claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers.

Dec 17, 2024 · A bipartisan committee of Texas lawmakers again issued a subpoena compelling the state’s prison system to let death row inmate Robert Roberson provide testimony at the Capitol about his murder conviction, which some legislators say is based on “junk science.”