Lina de Florias fills in and covers the top afternoon reports from Houston and beyond for Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the U.S. Agriculture Secretary met on Friday to announce steps to battle an invasive species that ...

Stopping Screwworms - Governor Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announce new plans to stop the spread ...

On Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins publicly addressed “plans to fight back against threats posed by the New World screwworm.” ...

The facility will have the capacity to produce 300 million sterile screwworm flies per week, tripling the current capacity to ...

Texas Gov. Abbott and Secretary Rollins announce a $750 million facility in Edinburg to counter New World screwworm threat.

(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend up to $750 million to build a facility in Texas that produces ...

The federal government is ramping up efforts in Texas to combat the spread of New World Screwworm, a pest that could ...

Gov. Greg Abbott was joined by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins at the Texas Capitol where Rollins announced the ...

The United States is embarking on an ambitious, multi-million dollar project in southern Texas to combat the threat of ...

Work started Friday afternoon on the second special session at the Texas State Capitol. But when the roll call took place in the Texas House, not enough members were in attendance to conduct ...

Mounted patrol officers, known as tick riders, who typically patrol the southern border to protect cattle from fever tick, also now will serve as the first line of defense against screwworm.