Updated: 10:45 AM Applications are being accepted for grants to provide economic assistance to independent producers, farmer and rancher cooperatives and agricultural producer groups through the Value-Added Producer Grant Program.
Posted: 3:37 PM The Texas Legislature has approved a bill allowing public school districts to cut teacher pay and furlough them beginning in 2012, in an attempt to avoid mass layoffs.
Posted: 3:15 PM Texas lawmakers have passed a major budget-balancing bill that was a must-pass in the special session. The measure now goes to Gov. Rick Perry for his signature.
Posted: 3:08 PM Sales are up, new employees are being hired, and credit is available despite many local businesses feeling the nation isn’t out of the recession yet is what survey results showed from the Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce’s Chamber Day.
Posted: 9:02 AM U.S. stocks are rising in early trading after encouraging signs about Europe's debt crisis overshadowed a dismal report about spending by American consumers.
Posted: 11:37 AM The Dow Jones industrial average is trading below 12,000 for the first time since March and the Nasdaq composite index has given up all of this year's gains.
Updated: 3:47 PM Dallas, Texas (June 8, 2011) - Investigators for the Texas Railroad Commission have begun investigating complaints of "numerous seriously defective and dangerous conditions" along a 36-inch, high-pressure, natural-gas pipeline that runs through five Texas counties, including Grimes and Robertson.
Posted: 9:58 AM The Supreme Court says Halliburton Co. shareholders can pursue a class-action lawsuit claiming the oil services company inflated its stock price.
Posted: 10:47 AM Republicans intend to stage a vote in the House next week on legislation to raise the nation's debt limit without requiring spending cuts, a measure expected to fail.
Posted: 9:01 AM Stocks are opening sharply lower after warnings about the finances of several European countries reignited fears about the region's debt crisis.
Posted: 9:55 AM A Rutgers University poll finds that the most recent graduates are stuck taking lower-paying jobs that are less likely to offer health insurance.
Posted: 6:38 AM St. Joseph Regional Health Center has received the American Stroke Association’s (ASA) Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award.