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While other universities move to preserve the advisory bodies, Texas State will abolish them under a new state law that curtails faculty’s influence on campuses.

Last week, the City of Lubbock presented its budget for the next fiscal year to members of city council. In tomorrow's meeting, the council will propose its maximum tax rate for homeowners. Meanwhile, KERA's Toluwani Osibamowo reports the Texas Attorney General's Office is threatening two former state funeral commission employees with legal action after they spoke out against the agency. Summer vacation is coming to a close, and many Lubbock students are going back to school this week. Lubbock ISD, Lubbock-Cooper ISD, and Frenship ISD begin their new school year this Wednesday.

The parks department is buying and developing thousands of acres of private land for public use.

The footprints were created some 115 million years ago, when what is now a Central Texas suburb was a beach on the Western Interior Seaway.

Funding for FEMA's disaster survivor hotline lapsed the day after the Texas floods, federal records show. It took DHS Secretary Kristi Noem five days to approve more money.

The case of Senator E.L. Alford, who was expelled from his seat in 1870, provides lessons for today.

More than 50 Texas House Democrats left the state to stall a Republican-backed redistricting plan, effectively shutting down legislative business at the state Capitol.

Some San Antonio students may spend more time in alternative school — or even expelled — during the upcoming school year.

The proposal would have let landowners donate land to the refuge.

Over the past month, a substantial amount of cleanup has been done but there are months of work left to do.