Renewables brought income to ranchers and tax revenue to counties long buffeted by boom-and-bust oil cycles. Policy changes in Washington and unease on the ground threaten that momentum.

The Little Alsace of Texas, my once and current home, has long been more comfortable with an idealized past than with its full history or contradictory present.

Even sites once protected by Congress, including a butterfly refuge and a historic church, are slated for fencing funded by ...

Meanwhile, the U.S. energy secretary tries to soothe an anxious American oil industry, urging them to ramp up production amid ...

A new book doesn't romanticize our state's history, but it does establish a neglected throughline of solidarity.

When book bans or right-wing operatives come to town, school board trustee Juan Miguel Arredondo told the Observer, “My ...

Last week's convictions related to a July 4 ICE detention center demonstration raise red flags about the right to protest.

Some evangelical Christians are hammering away at the very church-state separation that allowed them, and other believers, to ...

They grapple with a system where their income, housing, or immigration status may depend on supervisors who perpetuate sexual violence without oversight.

We cannot let this cruelty continue. There are so many ways to take action, and even small acts make a difference when we do ...

This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent, non-profit news organization. Lawrence Brorman eases his pickup through plowed farmland in ...