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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Where has Harris County’s Tax Assessor-Collector been? A recent Houston Chronicle investigation found that the top tax official in Texas’ most populous county has not shown up to her office in four ...

In 2021, a court ruled that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office has limited ability to prosecute voter fraud. Since then, his office’s work combating those crimes has slowed to a crawl. But ...