DALLAS — Texas lawmakers hope to rein in homeowners’ rising insurance bills even as they acknowledge there’s only so much they can do to tackle costs. Legislators have advanced bills to limit how much ...

The Dallas metro and the state of Texas rank near the top of the country for average home insurance premiums — thanks in part to the rise in extreme weather events. A study published earlier this ...

Texas homeowners’ insurance rates are rising fast, and there is little the Texas Legislature or anyone else can do to slow them down. Average premiums for Texans have jumped 43% since 2023 and will ...

Around a decade ago, Kat and Giles Roberts bought a three-thousand-square-foot house in Clear Lake, the southeast Texas town on Galveston Bay that is best known as the home of NASA’s Johnson Space ...

Texas Lawmakers continue to look at ways to cut property taxes and increase homestead exemptions, but there’s another part of the home affordability equation that’s also key to driving costs down: ...

It is only a matter of time before the property insurance crisis, which has already affected California and Florida, reaches Texas, according to experts. As coverage becomes increasingly unaffordable ...

A damaged piano remains within other debris collected after a tornado moved through Valley View in May 2024. Multiple people were killed in Texas and many others injured around the Denton-Cooke County ...

A severe winter storm hit Dallas–Fort Worth on Jan. 24, 2026, causing widespread property damage and insurance claim ...

Pictured is the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a bill that will prevent insurance companies from raising the auto and home insurance rates of people just ...

Texas lawmakers have few options to drive down rising home insurance costs. DALLAS — Texas lawmakers hope to rein in homeowners’ rising insurance bills even as they acknowledge there’s only so much ...

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