Inside Books Project volunteers have sent used books to Texas inmates for nearly 30 years. A new crackdown is threatening ...

Every day the Permian Basin brings up more water than nearby communities use, and treats most of it as waste. The state can ...

Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region’s reservoir system turned this year’s drought conditions into an emergency.

State funding and policy have fallen short, advocates say, and the consequences are not confined to your backyard.

On May 20, a black hearse drawn by dark horses led the march of University of Texas at Austin students, clad all in black ...

These deaths are on Biden,” Abbott posted on social media about the then-president, going on to say that “deadly open border ...

Editor’s Note: This story is the third installment in a series produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network. Goliad County police kicked off one human smuggling ...

At this year’s Texas Democratic Party convention, sounds of the Corpus Christi coastline lulled Lone Star liberals into the recurring dream of a blue wave crashing over the state. After 30 years of ...

Around 4 a.m. on May 15, in the 1-year-old South Texas town of Starbase, Jose Luis Bautista, a 25-year-old man from nearby Donna, rode a scissor lift around 50 feet up toward the ceiling of the ...

A version of this story ran in the July / August 2022 issue. These days the Kemah Boardwalk is a glitzy, overbuilt amusement park where competing pop songs blare from speakers and the smells of fried ...

Black Mexican American writer and teacher based in Houston. She is the author of We Are Owed. and Sana Sana and is a national ...