Suzanne Potter, Public News Service – MT FORT PECK INDIAN RESERVATION, Mont. — Thirty million bison once roamed the American West. Now, only 21,000 remain that are managed as wildlife. But this week, for the first time, female bison are being transferred out of Yellowstone National Park in a new…

By Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune Dec. 23, 2019 “Analyzing 2019: The fall of a Texas House speaker” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Dennis Bonnen entered…

Eric Galatas, Public News Service – CO DENVER – In the first year of the Trump administration’s new tax law, 91 Fortune 500 companies didn’t pay a dime in federal income tax, according to a new study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Report co-author Matthew Gardner, senior…

By Megan Menchaca, The Texas Tribune Dec. 23, 2019 “Everything you need to know about homelessness in Texas” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. More than 25,000…

(Press Release) Planet Fitness, one of the largest and fastest-growing franchisors and operators of fitness centers in the U.S. and home of the Judgement Free Zone®, today announced it will open its first location in Eagle Pass, TX at 455 South Bibb Ave. in the summer of 2020. The 25,000…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2019 The year 2019 was a busy year for top stories developing and reported in Eagle Pass and Maverick County, Texas by the Eagle Pass Business Journal staff. 2019 also closes out the decade of the 2010s and leads into the…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2019 The start of the Christmas holiday travel season into Mexico on Saturday, December 21, 2019, saturated the two City of Eagle Pass International Bridges causing automobile lines to back up to the Skillet’s Restaurant area on Main Street, forcing the…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2019 Maverick County Sheriff Tom Schmerber reported that a dispute among several men resulted in one person shot and killed by an assailant and another person was critically injured and airlifted to a San Antonio medical center for treatment of his…

(Press Release) Del Rio Sector employees joined forces with local charities and donated hundreds of gifts to share the holiday spirit and bring happiness to local children. “I am extremely proud of the generosity our employees displayed this holiday season in donating hundreds of gift for children in our community,”…

By: Hannah Fresques, ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Doctors who receive money from drugmakers related to a specific drug prescribe that drug more heavily than doctors without such financial ties, a…