Like other sea urchins, they have an amazing feeding structure called Aristotle’s lantern. It contains five teeth that allow the urchin to scrape and chew food. Atlantic purple sea urchins are ...

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 ...

Garnet Coleman, a Democrat who represented Houston’s House District 147 in the Texas Legislature for more than 30 years, died Wednesday at the age of 65. According to a statement from his family, ...

This Week In Texas Music History is supported by Brane Audio. In February 1970, Fort Worth hard rockers Bloodrock issued their debut album. The band formed the year before with a core of players — Jim ...

Affordability has dominated the U.S. Senate race in Texas, with both candidates promising to help voters’ pocketbooks. But there are limits on how much they actually can do to combat rising costs if ...

The fight over a new border wall in the Big Bend region isn’t just between residents and the Trump administration anymore. Increasingly, it’s neighbor against neighbor. According to reporting from ...

Joe Baker was at home in Sanger May 25 when a little before 10 p.m., his wife told him a hail storm was moving their way. Worried about the white Dodge pickup he left parked outside his storage unit ...

Texas has long been a source of money for political candidates around the country, but the state also attracts plenty of wealthy donors from out of state – drawn here by particular causes, and the ...

Monica Gallagher is an Austin-based cartoonist: “I do a lot of romance comics, slice of life comics, whole gamut. And recently I got into cryptids.” Gallagher blames her listening habits for her ...

Texas lawmakers just wrapped up the legislative session after thousands of hours of debating over thousands of bills — all in just 140 days. And as you may or may not know, the state’s lawmakers meet ...

Some bills passed by the state Legislature are more consequential than others. Some become law and then go more or less unnoticed. Others, like Senate Bill 2038, make a deep impact immediately. SB ...

For many Texans, colonias evoke images of mismatched shanties, dusty roads and children wading through excrement-rich floodwaters after heavy rainfall. That’s also how people who testified before ...