Interactive Map: Coronavirus Restrictions Vary Greatly Across North Texas
Texas is largely leaving it up local governments to decide how to proceed regarding businesses during the coronavirus outbreak.
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Texas is largely leaving it up local governments to decide how to proceed regarding businesses during the coronavirus outbreak.
Saying they need 'to be prepared to assist with response efforts for COVID-19' Texas Governor Greg Abbott activated the Texas National Guard on Tuesday.
Access will only be granted to "essential visitors such as medical professionals and authorized caregivers acting specifically on a patient's behalf."
Last week a Texas state representative petitioned to have all standardized public school testing canceled because of the coronavirus, today Governor Greg Abbott made it official.
In an effort to keep grocery stores stocked during the growing concern of the coronavirus outbreak, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has waived laws in order to allow trucks from the alcohol industry to deliver supplies to those stores.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has taken notice of lines with reportedly hours-long wait times at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Saturday evening for arriving international travelers.
The pandemic has spread to all of the state's biggest cities, including Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin.
Gov. Abbott said in a news release Sunday that "approximately 90 Texans" are among the unspecified number of U.S. citizens expected to arrive at Lackland Air Force Base.
"Price-gouging is un-Texan and will not be tolerated in our state," read the joint statement. "We will work to combat any attempt to exploit public health and safety for monetary gain."
Six public health labs, including ones in Dallas and Fort Worth, are now equipped to perform COVID-19 testing.
"We've been through this exercise before," Governor Abbott said referencing the Ebola situation in Dallas in 2014. "In Texas language, this isn't our first rodeo."
Gov. Abbott's office said the new application was established because human trafficking and domestic violence often lead victims down a path of offenses that entraps them in a cycle of crime.
More than three months after the tornado, Dallas area leaders are still waiting for the federal disaster declaration.
It's called Lily's Law and it was named after a Mockingbird Elementary School student in Dallas ISD.
This follows their letter to President Trump earlier this month asking him to expedite FEMA's review and to support Governor Abbott's request for a federal disaster declaration.
"The Lone Star State will remain vigilant to protect the health and safety of all Texans," Governor Greg Abbott said Monday.
Texas can receive the money over the next five years while still excluding Planned Parenthood from a state program called Healthy Texas Women.
The Governor is discussing opportunities for Israel and Texas to collaborate on the advancement of the cyber security, energy, and robotics sectors.
It has been nearly three months since the October 20, 2019 tornado outbreak in North Texas and there is no sign yet of the federal government stepping in to help.
A judge has agreed to block the Trump administration from enforcing an executive order allowing state and local governments to reject the resettlement of refugees.
It's not an election year for Texas Governor Greg Abbott, but he's raising money like it is one.
Governor Abbott explained the pardon was not just about Hamilton, but also sends a message to all victims of human trafficking that there is a "path to redemption."
The counties included in the request are Dallas and Erath Counties in North Texas and Cameron County in South Texas.
"You've got a choice to make: You can create fear or you can help resolve fear," Hutchinson told lawmakers. "I challenge you to help resolve fear, have the facts, and to talk about those."
The bishops of Dallas and Fort Worth are among the 16 Texas Catholic bishops who have denounced Gov. Greg Abbott's decision to reject new refugees in 2020.
