Warning: This story contains vulgar language that may be offensive to some readers. Republican Brandon Herrera’s past online comments about women and children are drawing scrutiny as the firearms ...

In 1915, one of the earliest coast-to-coast highways was built through Texas as it passed through all Southern states. In West Texas it ran along the U.S.–Mexico border and was known as the Bankhead ...

Texas has two main programs serving pregnant people without insurance: pregnancy Medicaid and CHIP Perinatal. Both programs have income requirements based on federal guidelines and limited coverage ...

Two Texas counties more than 300 miles away from each other are engaged in a legal fight over tax breaks for affordable housing. The housing finance corporation for Cameron County, along the southern ...

Just weeks before summer camp season, only three Texas camps had been licensed under new safety laws passed after last year’s deadly Hill Country floods. Sarah Bahari of The Dallas Morning News joins ...

Many coming-of-age stories are timeless tales shared through literary memoirs. But author Pedro Martín took a road less traveled in a sense, when he decided to tell the story of a childhood ...

The name for one of Texas’ popular amusement parks, Six Flags Over Texas, comes from history. The slogan is used to describe the six different countries that, at one time or another, had sovereignty ...

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, New York City had a problem – tens of thousands of homeless children. Widespread poverty and disease lead to a city overrun with orphans and unwanted children. That ...

In 1909, in the little town of Shiner, Texas, a group of German and Czech farmers decided they missed the beer of the old country. They pooled their money, built a ramshackle brewery, and called it ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump had announced last weekend that he would deploy ICE to some U.S. airports this week. This included Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, which saw lines of more than ...

Texas has been majority white since at least the mid 1800s, but Hispanics have been expected to overtake the majority for some time. Now, new data shows that happened at some time in 2022. The U.S.