As a part of a bill critics have dubbed the “Death Star” bill—an expansive law that preempts legislation in eight key areas of local government—the Legislature has overridden local ordinances that ...

Town’s historic 18th Congressional District talks about his recent primary against Al Green, ICE, voting rights, and the U.S.

After the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, local authorities have struggled to stake their claim on an investigation ...

Proposed projects are driven by sketchy numbers nobody has to prove: inflated demand, water use most companies never report, ...

Immigration agents sped after a vehicle through a residential neighborhood on the same day of the agency’s traffic stop pause ...

I was molded from the clay soil in Deep East Texas, in the small city of Lufkin. This region has an antebellum history ...

If you’ve been on the voting rights tour bus in Texas, what a ride it’s been—especially since 2013. Prior to then, the state was beholden to the Voting Rights Act of 1965—a historic law that ...

This report is part of a regular collaboration between the Texas Observer and Inside Climate News. Federal regulators have cleared a gas terminal on the Texas coast to restart commercial production of ...

We’re gonna be riding around areas where most everybody thinks it’s unsafe, and you’re gonna see that there’s really nothing ...

A version of this story ran in the September / October 2025 issue. Thirteen years ago, a young mayor of San Antonio gave the keynote speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in North Carolina ...

Editor’s Note: This story is copublished with The Border Chronicle. About 10 miles upstream from the mouth of the Rio Grande, along a quiet bend of the river near a historic Civil War battle site, ...