The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) officials have announced upcoming nightly full closure of the southbound mainlanes beginning at 6:00 p.m. until 5:00 a.m. on March 1 until March 2. This closure is to permit the switching of the southbound traffic from SH-91 to US 82 onto the new paving and moving the concrete barrier.

Austin College will welcome Nathan Carlin, Ph.D. as the speaker for the 2026 Allen-Head Lecture. The event will take place on Thursday, March 5 in Wright Campus Center with a reception at 4:30 p.m. in the Johnson Art Gallery and the lecture, titled “The Secularization of Medicine,” starting at 5:30 p.m. in Room 231 of the same building. The event is free and open to the public.

Artist's reconstruction of the ancient Macromyzon siluricus leech. A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and that their earliest ancestors may have feasted not on blood, but on smaller marine creatures.

Angel Fire Resort proudly announces the return of one of winter’s most legendary and unconventional competitions: the 2026 World Championship Shovel Races, taking place February 27–28, 2026. As the originator of the shovel races, it is fitting that Angel Fire Resort is one of the few places in the world still keeping this sport alive.

On February 26, 2026, the Fannin County District Attorney’s Office secured a three-decade prison sentence for the offenses of Failure of Sex Offender’s Duty to Register, and two counts of Possession of Child Pornography in the case against Christopher Pennington, 41, of Honey Grove. The Honorable Judge Tillett sentenced the defendant to 30 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

1993 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh, starting a 51-day standoff. The Waco siege, also known as the Waco massacre, was the siege by US federal government and Texas state law enforcement officials of a compound belonging to the religious cult known as the Branch Davidians, between February 28 and April 19, 1993. The Branch Davidians, led by David Koresh, were headquartered at Mount Carmel Center ranch in unincorporated McLennan County, Texas, 13 miles northeast of Waco. Suspecting the group of stockpiling illegal weapons, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) obtained a search warrant for the compound and arrest warrants for Koresh and several of the group's members. The ATF had planned a sudden daylight raid of the ranch in order to serve these warrants. Any advantage of surprise was lost when a local reporter who had been tipped off about the raid asked for directions from a US Postal Service mail carrier who was coincidentally Koresh's brother-in-law. Thus, the group's members were fully armed and prepared; upon the ATF initiating the raid, an intense gunfight erupted, resulting in the deaths of four ATF agents and six Branch Davidians. Following the ATF entering the property and its failure to execute the search warrant, a siege was initiated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), during which negotiations between the parties attempted to reach a compromise. After 51 days, on April 19, 1993, the FBI launched a CS gas (tear gas) attack in an attempt to force the Branch Davidians out of the compound's buildings. Shortly thereafter, the Mount Carmel Center became engulfed in flames. The fire and the reaction to the final attack within the group resulted in the deaths of 76 Branch Davidians, including 20–28 children and Koresh.