By tapping into museum archives, it’s possible to fill in the missing chapters of a region’s pollution history, says ...

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The Connecticut legislature has barred that state's government from setting up the kind of digital assets reserves seen ...

A federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing anti-diversity and anti-transgender ...

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A Savoy, Texas gas station captured video of a black bear in the area. Texas Parks and Wildlife confirmed the sighting.

TODD MISSION, Texas — George Coulam, the founder of the Texas Renaissance Festival and a towering figure in its 50-year history, died by suicide, according to an update from Grimes County ...

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Chevron will lay off 200 employees in Texas, according to figures from the Texas Workforce Commission. The layoffs are part of the U.S. oil producer's plan to cut up to 20% of its global workforce ...

WEST MONROE, La. (AP) — Phil Robertson, who turned his small duck calling interest in the sportsman's paradise of northern Louisiana into a big business and conservative cultural phenomenon ...