With the presence of a deadly, flesh-eating parasite in the U.S. growing greater by the day, federal and Texas officials are ...

On Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins publicly addressed "plans to fight ...

(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend up to $750 million to build a facility in Texas that produces ...

Stopping Screwworms - Governor Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announce new plans to stop the spread ...

Work started Friday afternoon on the second special session at the Texas State Capitol. But when the roll call took place in ...

The USDA has announced a new sterile fly breeding site in southern Texas to protect American cattle from the deadly New World screwworm maggots near the Mexico border.

Lina de Florias fills in and covers the top afternoon reports from Houston and beyond for Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025.

The U.S. plans to build a $750 million factory in southern Texas to breed billions of sterile flies, ramping up its efforts to keep flesh-eating maggots in Mexico from crossing the border and damaging ...

Texas Gov. Abbott and Secretary Rollins announce a $750 million facility in Edinburg to counter New World screwworm threat.

After years of legal delays, the Texas Education Agency released accountability ratings on Friday, showing how public schools performed in 2024 and 2025. The ratings paint a precarious picture for ...

With concerns about New World Screwworm increasing, the US Department of Agriculture says it is taking several steps to halt ...