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 ...

A judge has sided with state Rep. Gina Hinojosa after the Democratic gubernatorial candidate sued last week for access to unredacted versions of emails between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and ...

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 ...

In the early 1950s, the threat of nuclear war and Communism cast shadows over much of the western hemisphere. And for a brief time, they darkened the pastures and hills of Central Texas more than ...

Texas House Democrats have left the state to delay congressional redistricting set to favor Republicans. If all this sounds familiar, it’s probably because Texas Democrats walked out in 2021, in 2003, ...

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 ...

Many have compared Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation with that of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in 1991. But not long before that, there was another Washington appointment held up by sexual ...

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 ...

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 ...

Libraries are quiet places, which allows visitors to the Julia Ideson Building of the Houston Public Library to occasionally hear the distant strains of a violin playing a romantic Strauss waltz. The ...

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 Standard and public radio stations across the state have been working together to help you make sense of the midterms through our Texas Decides project, inviting listeners to send in their ...