It’s Been a Weird Week to Be an Airline
Flight attendants go viral with comedy routines, official Twitter accounts go viral with porn, and emergency landings ahoy. What's going on in the skies? …
Reporting and commentary on Texas businesses and the trends and innovation happening in our state
Flight attendants go viral with comedy routines, official Twitter accounts go viral with porn, and emergency landings ahoy. What's going on in the skies? …
Them's fightin' words. …
The award—a record high for a Justice Department environmental settlement—will go toward restoring sites harmed by uranium mining, chemical manufacturing, waste dumps, and other operations overseen by Anadarko’s subsidiary Kerr-McGee.
Patterson's desire to take the UT brand to China and Dubai may have grabbed the headlines, but the bigger deal could be that he's comfortable dropping the three-year-rule that requires college football players to wait to enter the NFL Draft.
"Amnesty day": Not just for libraries anymore!…
This is bad news environmentally and economically. …
The curious Texas tradition of dipping pizza crusts in ranch dressing will cost you.
The Maverick NBA owner issued some cautionary words for the people who run America's most popular sports entertainment. …
The state managed to find a new supply of Pentobarbital, the drug it uses to perform lethal injections, but officials aren't saying where it came from.
AT&T takes the top spot for Texas, but it comes in behind Apple, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, and GE nationally. …
The complicated world of film incentives has resulted in an unfortunate lawsuit surrounding the financing of Machete Kills. …
Who isn't psyched at the thought of interacting with Samsung, Pennzoil, and Doritos? …
When the "CockAsian" food truck rolled into Port San Antonio, local officials Googled the name to find the menu. What Google offered in return led them to ban the truck from the development. …
How Houston mayor Annise Parker’s nasty battle with the firefighters’ pension fund could affect the fate of Texas’s largest city.
We're betting they live in Highland Park.
The mall is a flat circle, at which one can buy McConaughey's "just keep livin" line of menswear at Dillard's. …
The eccentric billionaire is considering launching his space program in Cameron County and making his car batteries in-state—which could add thousands of space-age jobs to the Texas economy. …
Taco Land, the beloved punk rock dive in San Antonio, closed its doors in 2005 when owner Ram Ayala was shot and killed inside his own club. Now, the space has been renovated and reopened by a new owner—but just how much the new Tacoland resembles the old is up…
Rick Perry’s approach to economic development is being challenged by candidates from both parties. But history shows that Perry is only conducting business as usual.
Trinity East Energy sues Dallas, Whole Foods' stock takes a dip, and more from the week in business. …
Was deregulating the Texas electricity markets a colossal mistake?…
The struggling Plano-based department store chain was trying to advertise mittens. …
The much-publicized—but thus far underwhelming—return of Bennigan's has nonetheless heralded the return of the casual dining chain's sister restaurant. …
An employee at the store, which famously celebrates breasts, told her to go to the alley out back instead. …
The competition between Google and AT&T to bring ultra-high-speed Internet to Austin is not exactly what it seems.
Over the past few years, J. C. Penney, the venerable department store and the largest retailer based in Texas, has very nearly collapsed. What happened?…
Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin have both bought up a lot of land along the border. Brownsville and Van Horn are not exactly where you'd expect to find the cutting-edge vanguard of private, high-tech space exploration. …
John William Snavely was recruited into the world of gay porn from the stage at a strip club in San Antonio. As the Houston Press story details in a story about his second career in Miami, where he's now in jail on murder charges, that is a dark world to enter.
America's leading death-care provider, based in Houston, charges 42% more for its traditional funeral services; Torchy's taco is suing the Texas Taco Company; bags might not fly free at Southwest; and more.
J.C. Penney is trying desperately to revive its brand after a disastrous stint by former CEO Ron Johnson. Let's revisit some of his biggest missteps.
“Our bedrooms are no longer bedrooms. They are offices and living rooms and playrooms.”…
Home prices in Houston and Dallas are “up more than at any time since the oil boom of the 1980s." And with every rise... …
A Done Dell After months of delays and deliberations, Dell Inc. shareholders voted Thursday to take the company private in a $24.8 billion buyout from CEO Michael Dell and the Silver Lake Partners investment group. The deal, which is expected to go through by November 1, comes after a…
Cuban Confidential Dallas Mavericks owner and Shark Tank panelist Mark Cuban is back in court this week to defend himself against a federal insider-trading lawsuit that has spanned nearly a decade. The Securities and Exchange Commission claims Cuban “broke a promise of confidentiality and traded on private information that gave him an advantage…
The Love Belo Shareholders of Dallas-based TV broadcasting company Belo Corp. voted this week to approve the company’s sale to Gannett in a deal worth $1.5 billion. If the deal closes by the end of the year as expected, Gannett will be one of the nation’s largest TV-station owners,…
And as president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Richard Fisher helps make the money go round. Meet the Fed’s most unlikely central banker.
There are a whole lot of Texans on Forbes's list of the wealthiest people in America.
After seven months of wrangling and a shareholder vote that was rescheduled three times, Dell has finally prevailed in his $24.9 billion bid to take his namesake company private.
A new bill that went into effect making it illegal to shoot stray bison could save ranchers thousands of dollars.
A new law goes into effect on Sunday prohibiting Texans under the age of eighteen from tanning. Salons oppose the new legislation, and one scientific advisors says, “If you’re going to tell people sunshine is bad for them, you may as well tell them air is harmful.”…
Construction is underway on a new wind farm at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pantex Plant near Amarillo. When completed the plant will be the largest federally owned wind farm in the U.S.
Can the company that changed personal computing muster a second act?…
While Houston boasts the nation's leading export market and one particularly pesky debt collection agency incurs its own $3.2 million fine.
The city of West filed a lawsuit against the fertilizer plant that exploded there in April, Neiman Marcus plans to go public, Rick Santorum's Christian movie career, and more.
The Houston-based says it has dismissed George Zimmer, its founder and executive chairman. The company didn't give a reason for the abrupt firing of Zimmer, who built Men's Wearhouse from one small Texas store using a cigar box as a cash register to a men's retail empire.
Gannett Company bought Belo Corporation, the Dallas-based television media company, for $1.5 billion. This makes Gannett the third-largest local station owners in America, behind CBS and News Corp.
The convenience store chain, which has its U.S. headquarters in Dallas, plans to double the number of North American locations.
Plus Apple will open a Texas factory, and NASA has selected an Austin company to develop a 3-D printer that can produce food for astronauts.
Texas is likely to become a top state for unmanned drone aircraft production in the next two decades, according to a new analysis by Fortune.