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 ...

Dave Philipps new book teaches about Texas regions known as wild horse desert that used to house massive herds of wild horses. If you look at some old maps of Texas, whole swaths of the state are ...

Applications are now open for Texas’ new private school voucher program, launching a process that will determine which families receive state-funded education savings accounts. The Houston Chronicle ...

Austin is changing – perhaps more quickly and more profoundly than any other American city. Now the 11th largest in the U.S., Austin is home to billionaire tech entrepreneurs, snarled traffic and ...

In parts of the Houston area, those who call the police and expect a Houston Police Department cruiser to pull up might be surprised by who responds — not a Houston police officer or deputy sheriff ...

The Texas Railroad Commission is a highly influential regulatory body, overseeing much of how the state’s energy industry does its work. One thing it doesn’t regulate is, well, railroads. And hasn’t ...

The newest battle centers on criminal district attorneys in Texas’ big cities, who are mostly Democrats. Some of these chief prosecutors have told their communities they will not zealously pursue ...

Whether TikTok is a harmless time waster or a sneaky surveillance mechanism depends on who you ask – and it’s a question that members of Congress are currently wrestling over. Last week, TikTok CEO ...

In Brownsville, Texas last October, Gina Hinojosa announced she was running for governor of Texas. Hinojosa is an attorney and state lawmaker, and at the time, few political pundits gave her candidacy ...

It seems that every year, we hear how college is becoming more and more expensive. For the school year that just started in August, full-time students at the University of Texas at El Paso are paying ...

If you want a taste of white-tail deer in Texas, your best bet is to go out and shoot one, because you can’t buy it at the grocery store. But why, when Texas has a multi billion-dollar hunting ...

This is the second story in a three-part series about HemisFair ’68. For part one, click here. 50 years ago this week San Antonio kicked off its world’s fair – HemisFair ‘68. Thursday, we brought you ...