by Edgar Walters, The Texas Tribune Aug. 19, 2016 When Texas officials announced earlier this month they would allow Medicaid to pay for mosquito repellent for low-income pregnant women — a move meant to stop the spread of the Zika virus — health care advocates greeted the news with tempered…

by Edgar Walters, The Texas Tribune Aug. 19, 2016 Texas has seen an “unusual,” dramatic increase in the number of women who died from pregnancy-related causes in the last five years, according to a new study. The state’s rate of maternal mortality nearly doubled between 2010 and 2014, according to…

(Press Release) This month, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded $32,719 to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for work to monitor and manage white-nose syndrome (WNS), a deadly disease that has decimated bat populations in other states. Bat Conservation International, a nonprofit based in Austin, will do much of…

By Phil McKenna, InsideClimate News A groundswell of Native American activists has temporarily shut down construction on a major new oil pipeline with an ongoing protest that has drawn around 1,200 people to Cannon Ball, N.D. Construction workers walked away from their bulldozers Monday after protesters surrounded the equipment and…

by Jim Malewitz, The Texas Tribune Aug. 17, 2016 A state appeals court has struck down a plastic bag ban in Laredo in a high-profile fight over local control that could ultimately impact similar laws in other Texas cities. The Fourth Court of Appeals on Wednesday sided with merchants and…

(Press Release) After having time to review the $2.1 million lawsuit filed by bankrupt hospital owner Victory Parent Company, the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas has retained counsel and will defend itself against the false accusations and unreasonable claims made in the lawsuit. The Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas always…

by Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune Aug. 18, 2016 Though still smarting from a June decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that kept President Obama’s 2014 immigration program from being implemented, the undocumented population in Texas is taking a glass-half-full approach as it celebrates the four-year anniversary of another initiative…

(Press Release) Texas is receiving 71 awards totaling $5,054,133 to invest in health center quality improvement efforts, and to provide high quality comprehensive care. Health centers in Texas will use these funds to expand current quality improvement systems and infrastructure and to improve primary care service delivery in the communities…

(Press Release) District Attorney Roberto Serna reported that, after a 4 day trial, on August 18, 2016, a Zavala County jury adjudicated a juvenile and found the juvenile to have engaged in delinquent conduct, that being Indecency with a Child who was approximately 7 years old at the time of…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 United States Customs and Border Protection Officer Jose Carlos Echevarria, age 54, of 1701 Camarinos Drive in Eagle Pass, Texas was found dead at his home on Tuesday, August 16, 2016, after co-workers looked for him since he failed to…