Keller is celebrating 70 years since it became a city in Texas.

Its incorporation Nov. 16, 1955 is when Keller legally became a municipality and elected its first council members, said Rachel Reynolds, the city's communication and public engagement manager.

The backstory: Keller was founded as a railroad stop in the 1880s, according to a city social media post. It was named after railroad foreman John C. Keller, who assisted in selecting the community for a rail station.

An independently owned shipping center is now operating along Rufe Snow Drive in Keller.

The gist: KD Shipping Plus offers packing, shipping, printing and business services. The business packs and ships items to almost anywhere in the world, according to its website.

📍 2041 Rufe Snow Drive, Ste. 101, Keller

Gov. Greg Abbott announced that a runoff election for Senate District 9 will be held Jan. 31 between Taylor Rehmet and Leigh Wambsganss.

During the Nov. 4 election, neither candidate garnered more than 50% of the vote needed to win the race and fill the spot vacated this past summer by Sen. Kelly Hancock. The North Richland Hills politician resigned from the legislature to become the acting Comptroller of Public Accounts.

What you need to know: Rehmet, a Democrat, got 56,506 votes, or 47.56% during the Nov. 4 election, according to previous reporting.

Two Republicans split votes during the race. Wambsganss got 47,712 votes, or 35.59%, while former Southlake Mayor John Huffman received 19,591 votes, or 16.49%.

Texas cannot use its newly redrawn congressional map in the 2026 election, an El Paso federal court ruled Nov. 18.

The details: The state must instead use the congressional map that Texas lawmakers drew in 2021, after the 2020 census. 

“The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics,” U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown wrote in the Nov. 18 preliminary injunction. “To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 map.”

What they're saying: Texas Republican leaders said they would “swiftly appeal” the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. If the court takes up the case, its justices will be pressed for time ahead of the Dec. 8 deadline for candidates to apply to run in the March primary elections.

Texas Democrats celebrated the Nov. 18 ruling as "very good news for Texans."