Here are the stories on Texas Standard for Monday, April 6, 2026. Check back later today for updated story links and audio. How redistricting shaped Houston’s District 18 runoff race An ...

Baldemar Garza Huerta, better known as Freddy Fender, was born in 1937 in the small town of San Benito in the Rio Grande Valley. His family worked in cotton fields during his childhood. Fender made ...

Quanah Parker was the most feared of the Comanche chiefs on the Texas frontier. He was half white and half Comanche. He was taller and stronger and faster and more clever than any other chief of his ...

At an event for a congressional candidate last October, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called Rick Perry “one of my best friends in life” and said the two “talk all the time about politics.” The former governor ...

Aida Barrera was never trained as a teacher and didn’t know anything about television. But in 1962, she got a job in TV that started her on a path that would lead her to becoming a pioneer in the ...

There are some phrases in the game show world that carry more weight than others: “Is that your final answer?” “Would you like to buy a vowel?” “Deal or no deal?“ But three words stand above them all: ...

In Texas, 774 new state laws took effect last Friday. Under one of them, SB 1124, candidates for sheriff now need to have a peace officers license. Up until now, there was no law enforcement ...

Texas is one of a few states that uses purple as an official warning color. That’s unlike much of the rest of the world that uses orange to identify hazards, based on standards established by the ...

The story of La Lechuza usually goes something like this: A man is walking home alone, late at night. Maybe he’s been drinking. All of a sudden, he hears wings rustling – and maybe he sees glowing ...

It’s hard to miss the large colosseum-like structure off Ranch Road 1017 in the Rio Grande Valley. It’s the Santa Maria Bullring and it’s where Fred and Lisa Renk have been running bloodless ...

Twice in the last three years I’ve seen good-sized coral snakes in my yard. Both times I relocated them deep into the woods nearby. Their presence troubles me because there are often young children ...

What did they know, and when did they know it? It’s the question crucial to investigations from Watergate to Deflategate. And now it’s central in that other great crisis of our day: the great Blue ...