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At Thursday’s meeting, the Lubbock Independent School District Board of Trustees approved a new health care plan – with higher out-of-pocket expenses for teachers and staff. While one trustee offered a compromise, LISD administrators say the district remains in a challenging financial position.

Texas comes in last place for health coverage, access, and affordability for women, according to a new analysis. Texas Public Radio's Bonnie Petrie has more. And Lubbock Public Libraries are offering cooling centers with free water and air conditioning this summer.

Frenship Independent School District is calling for a voter approved tax ratification election and bond election this November. Our reporter Samantha Larned has more on what the funding would go toward if approved. And with dangerous heat-conditions across the South Plains, volunteers will be distributing free fans for Lubbockites on Saturday.

Many Lubbock County residents came to Monday’s commissioner’s court meeting to express their opposition to a proposed tax increase. Two commissioners were not among them, skipping the meeting to deny the quorum needed for a tax increase vote. Commissioners must vote on the tax rate before September 30.

Yesterday’s budget work session with the city council saw a new recommendation from city management to approach the issue with private sewer line repairs in the public right-of-way. And multiple Odessa residents are seeking millions of dollars in damages after they say an industrial facility chemical fire last month forced them from their homes and polluted their drinking water.

The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center has suspended an employee over social media comments described as quote “antisemitic.” And Texas Public Radio Education Reporter Camille Phillips reports the largest charter school network in Texas is intervening in a lawsuit over the state’s academic accountability ratings.

Our reporter Samantha Larned reports that the U.S. Department of Labor found three restaurants in Lamesa and Lubbock illegally withholding employee tips. And the City of Lubbock announced Richard Stewart, the current assistant chief of special services for the City of Irving Fire Department, as the finalist for Chief of Lubbock Fire Rescue.

Texas Tech rodeo fans are upset following the termination of six-year head coach Jerrad Hofstetter. KERA's Bill Zeeble has more on students in Texas Woman's University's new aeronautics program who took their first flights last week. And the City of Lubbock is asking residents of the Parkway-Cherry Point neighborhood to meet with City officials this week and discuss ongoing plans for development.

Our reporter Brad Burt has more on how a joint arrest effort involving federal and local law enforcement has officials highlighting the issue of stolen guns and a need for responsible gun ownership. And the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has received complaints about smoke from underground smoldering at the site of buried debris from Lubbock’s 1970 tornado.

The Lubbock ISD Board of Trustees approved a new property tax rate yesterday. And Texas Public Radio's Camille Phillips reports The American Civil Liberties Union and several other organizations filed briefs this week in an ongoing lawsuit over books removed from the Llano County library.