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Schools in the U.S. serve almost 30 million lunches every day. But rising food costs, regulations, and cuts to food assistance mean school kitchens have to do more with less.

Health insurance brokers say government moves to crackdown on fraud are causing chaos ahead of open enrollment.

Voters will select a new member of the Texas Railroad Commission, which has nothing to do with regulating trains and everything to do with the oil and gas industry.

SpaceX has led to industrial development and a new regional identity for the Rio Grande Valley.

Immigration enforcement has made it harder and more expensive to find workers, delaying construction in markets like the Rio Grande Valley.

As liquefied natural gas facilities, SpaceX, and other industrial projects expand in the Rio Grande Valley, trades programs are training local residents for jobs.

High diesel prices are keeping many Gulf shrimpers from fishing this shrimping season, as the declining industry struggles with profitability.

“I thought, ‘Oh, the down payment and closing costs and those kinds of things are going to be the most expensive part of buying a house, and it ain't,” says Ashley Ayala.

The Dallas 2026 Host Committee said it raised $45 million in less than four weeks, though it hasn’t identified the donors.

A glut of polyethylene had squeezed U.S. producers for years. But the war in the Middle East disrupted the global plastics market, sending prices higher and improving margins for producers along the U.S. Gulf Coast.