If reelected in November, Abbott would be on track to becoming Texas’ longest-serving governor in state history. While most polls currently show him in the lead over his Democratic challenger, State ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

My friend Jac Darsnek, owner of the always remarkable Traces of Texas Web page sent me a message recently. He asked if I had ever told the story of Dora Hand on the radio. I said, no, but I will.

Violence in the wake of the capture and death of Mexican cartel leader Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, also known as “El Mencho,” has affected a number of Mexican states and led the U.S. government ...

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 ...

Ben Kweller has been playing music most of his life, reaching the kind of success most artists only dream of before he was even out of his teens. That musicianship and raw talent would be passed down ...

Here are the stories on Texas Standard for Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. What’s behind ICE detention deaths in Texas? In the span of just six weeks between December and January, six people died while ...

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.

Today, the Llano Estacado has been immortalized in art. Just think of the lyrics from this song from Gary P. Nunn: It’s the Llano Estacado/It’s the Brazos and the Colorado/Spirit of the people down ...