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

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

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, ...

A version of this story ran in the July / August 2026 issue. When Michelle Wright Rhame was asked to be a foster mother, she saw it as a divine calling. She had always wanted to be a mom, but she ...

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

Students will learn that life circumstances are beyond their power to change. They will learn that their place in the economy ...

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 August 2013 issue. Horse racing was in Tyler Graham’s blood. His grandfather, Dr. Charles Graham, a respected rancher and veterinarian, had built the family’s ...

From the biggest cities to smaller towns, local officials wrote serious climate plans. One law at a time, state policy has ...

A version of this story ran in the January / February 2026 issue. Democrats haven’t won a U.S. Senate race in Texas for more than 35 years. In 2018, Beto O’Rourke came the closest when he lost to Ted ...

The name of the town was Porvenir, or “future.” In the early morning hours of January 28, 1918, 15 unarmed Mexicans and Mexican Americans were awakened by a state-sanctioned vigilante force of Texas ...

A version of this story ran in the July / August 2026 issue. In 2022, longtime Tarrant County Judge R. Glen Whitley, a consummate moderate Republican, opted to retire after a nearly 30-year reign.