San Antonio Express-News

The bill bars solar salespeople from lying to homeowners and requires them to register with the state. Violators could be fined up to $100K for repeat offenses.

Cedar Park-based Firefly’s Elytra spacecraft will serve as a space maneuver vehicle, performing tasks and hosting government payloads for the mission.

Segregation in public schools has been outlawed for 70 years — but across Texas, the legacy of that system still lingers.⁠ ⁠ We analyzed data from the National Center for Education Statistics to see how each school’s demographics compare to its wider geographic area. In Bexar County, which is wholly or partially home to 20 independent school districts, the typical white public school student attends a school where about 25% of students are also white. That percentage shrinks to 14% for the typical Black student and 12% for the typical Hispanic student.⁠ ⁠ In San Antonio ISD — one of the first districts in the state to desegregate — white students attend schools that are about 6% white, double the share of white students at the typical Black or Hispanic student’s school. These patterns are the result of decades of discriminatory real estate development and school district boundaries drawn to keep wealthier, whiter neighborhoods separate.⁠ ⁠ Use our interactive tool to see how your school compares — and to explore how segregation continues to shape education across Texas.⁠ https://bit.ly/4lw6ncv

School segregation’s impact still echoes in Texas. Use this tool to see how segregated or integrated your Texas school is.

A phoney April Fools' Day post reporting that H-E-B was opening a nightclub above a store in Houston had many fans fooled.

Leonardo Baez and Nora Avila-Guel’s bakery in the South Texas community of Los Fresnos is a daily stop for many residents to share gossip over coffee and pick up cakes and pastries for birthdays, office parties or themselves.⁠ ⁠ When Homeland Security Investigations agents showed up at Abby’s Bakery in February and arrested the owners and eight employees, residents were shocked.⁠ ⁠ The bakery’s owners, Baez and Avila-Guel, a Mexican couple who are legal U.S. permanent residents, could lose everything after being accused of concealing and harboring immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally. It’s a rare case in which business owners face criminal charges rather than just a fine.⁠ ⁠ Read the full story: https://bit.ly/4jgY2ao

Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched a long-teased bid to unseat U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, vowing to take a “sledgehammer to the D.C. establishment” after surviving federal criminal investigations and a state impeachment.⁠ ⁠ Paxton has long hinted at challenging Cornyn, a four-term Texas Republican who he has branded an “America Last RINO” who has done too little to help President Trump.⁠ ⁠ Paxton, who has served as attorney general since 2015, cast himself as a political survivor and touted his ties to Trump on a campaign site that went live Tuesday evening. The site said Trump and Paxton have both been targeted in “politically motivated witch hunts.”⁠ ⁠ The Texas House impeached Paxton in 2023, but he was acquitted by the conservative Senate.⁠ https://bit.ly/4li2ffT

Lake levels in Texas continue to break records for all the wrong reasons — they’re alarmingly low, a local music venue says the “show will go on” for controversial singer Michale Graves and San Antonio vocalist Britton Moore is headed to the playoffs in “The Voice.”⁠ ⁠ Head to our website to read these stories and more. https://exne.ws/website

From the start, CPS warned its gas-fired units at Braunig Power Station were aging and in need of repairs that could keep them from working in time for summer demand peaks.

While recent rainfall across parts of Central and South Texas has provided some temporary relief, it has not solved the region’s drought issues. Lake levels continue to break records for the wrong reasons — they’re alarmingly low.⁠ ⁠ Canyon Lake, which is located about 40 miles northeast of San Antonio, has reached new record low water levels for the past 10 days in a row, dating back to March 30. The reservoir is considered to be only 47.1% full, the lowest level since it was filled in 1968.⁠ ⁠ The situation is even more dire at Medina Lake, which sits about 50 miles southwest of Canyon Lake, on the border of Medina and Bandera counties. Medina Lake is considered a paltry 2.2% full, a new all-time low for the lake.⁠ ⁠ We’ve seen some rain lately, so why aren’t water levels rising? Read more here: https://bit.ly/425Zp6c