Economy

It can and it has. Last year, Texas lawmakers voted to override several local ordinances with new statewide measures — including relaxing regulations for ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft.

As American natural gas production soars, South Korea rushes to build tankers to move that energy to Asia’s top economies.

The company will reportedly receive as much as $25 million from a state job-creation fund.

As private developer Texas Central moves ahead with plans to build what could be the country's first high-speed rail line, a handful of state lawmakers hope to try next year to give the state more authority over the project. But they admit there may not be the legislative appetite.

For Texas ports, the rise in oil and gas exports is a windfall. For some communities, it’s not so simple.

As more oil and gas facilities come online in the Coastal Bend, the city and port of Corpus — and a handful of private companies — are planning to build a bevy of seawater desalination plants.

At roundtable discussions in Dallas, Texans identified how expensive housing affects economic mobility and quality of life. And they came up with ideas on how policymakers can help residents.

Texas voters — especially Republican voters — are upbeat about their personal economic situations, as well as those of the nation and state, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.

In separate interviews, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar, a Republican who's running for re-election, and Joi Chevalier, his Democratic opponent, talked about the state's looming pension crisis, whether lawmakers should cut taxes and what's in store for the Rainy Day Fund.

Several members of the new coalition are also part of a legal challenge to Austin's paid sick leave ordinance.

Since 2017, 12 families a day on average have been evicted from their homes in Travis County. Many people had lost a job, experienced a medical emergency or had a roommate leave without notice.

We analyzed housing data in hundreds of Texas ZIP codes to create a searchable tool so readers can see how affordable their neighborhood is.

We've prepared a toolkit to help Texans build a dialogue about housing issues in their community. It has everything you need to get started.

Demographics, income and location all play roles in the difficulties Texans face finding an affordable home in a neighborhood they like.

The city council is slated to discuss a new University of Texas at Austin study that identifies neighborhoods where redevelopment threatens to push out existing residents.

Texas sees more than $40 billion in total trade with Canada every year. Canada's potential exclusion from any new U.S. trade deal could result in the nation implementing costly tariffs that would hit Texas business, a trade expert says.

An agency official called it one of its biggest workplace raids in a decade.

The deal is the most significant step toward a new agreement since talks with Mexico and Canada began one year ago. But negotiators remain far from finishing their work.

Meanwhile, 15 percent of homes damaged or destroyed by the storm are still unlivable. Yet FEMA and Texas officials aren't keeping track of how many people remain displaced one year later.

An Austin-based appeals court on Friday evening blocked the city’s controversial ordinance requiring private employers to provide paid sick leave to their employees.