If you want to understand Texas, you can begin with a map, but you learn a lot more by getting out onto the land itself. A new PBS series pairs “The Daytripper” host, Chet Garner, with scientists from ...

There was a disturbance in the force for Texas cities and counties this legislative session. A bill dubbed the Death Star Bill — after the moon-sized technological terrors of Star Wars fame — passed ...

Texas lawmakers just wrapped up the legislative session after thousands of hours of debating over thousands of bills — all in just 140 days. And as you may or may not know, the state’s lawmakers meet ...

In a Republican primary upset, Bo French, a former chair of the Tarrant County Republican Party, defeated incumbent Jim Wright for a seat on the Railroad Commission. This despite Wright’s backing from ...

Gov. Greg Abbott is betting that his plan to lower property taxes could help him become the longest-serving governor in the state. Abbott kicked off his third reelection campaign for governor over the ...

Buy-Rite Foods is the kind of place shoppers can pick up a little bit of everything, from flour to toothpaste, in the small town of Pond Creek in central Oklahoma. “There’s a lot of regulars that we ...

Here are the stories on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026. Texas 2026 primary early voting rules and what to know before heading to the polls Early voting for Texas’ March 3 primary is underway, and voters ...

College student Lily Chen is off to spend the summer in Taipei at an intensive language program. Like many Chinese-American students before her, she signed up, hoping to connect with her culture. But ...

Texas leads the nation in population growth, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The Lone Star State is now home to 30 million people, adding roughly half a million new residents since ...

About 300 years ago, Spanish missionaries abandoned a site in what’s now Jackson County, in the middle of Texas’ Coastal Bend. Mission Nuestra Señora del Espiritu Santo was part of a struggle between ...

“The Johnny Canales Show” originally aired in the 1980s and became a hit in many Latino households. Based in Corpus Chrisi, the show was soon broadcast across the U.S. and parts of Mexico. But before ...

Medicaid in Texas covers close to 6 million people, everyone from cancer patients to pregnant people to kids across the state. That coverage means people have access to doctor’s appointments, hospital ...