Fort Worth’s first woman mayor served nearly 30 years in Congress, championing projects that reshaped the city.

With school supply costs outpacing inflation, many families — and especially the women who do the majority of purchases in ...

The Texas Standard is excited to share the Beachchombing Report from Jace Tunnell,Director of Community Engagement for the ...

On April 25, 1980, President Jimmy Carter gave a televised address to update the nation on the 52 American hostages at the American Embassy in Tehran, Iran. The day before Carter’s speech, U.S. army ...

Thirteen years ago, when Texas created the tax deal for data centers, state lawmakers expected to lose — at most — $14 million in tax revenue in Texas’ next 2-year budget cycle. Now, state projections ...

Texas’ school funding system was designed to try and level the playing field between school districts that can raise a lot of money from local property taxes and those that can’t. Commonly called ...

I’m at the Longhorn Ballroom on a stormy fall afternoon. Owner Edwin Cabaniss is showing me around. It’s a sprawling structure, sitting on six acres, with a capacity of over 2,000 people in the main ...

A century and half ago, there were tens of thousands of wolves running throughout Texas. The last wild wolves were seen in the late 20th century, when a pair were killed in West Texas. Today, hundreds ...

Lou Diamond Phillips has been acting for decades. But his breakout role was so iconic, it’s one he’s still largely associated with. Phillips played Ritchie Valens in 1987’s “La Bamba” and then went on ...

From PolitiFact via the Austin American-Statesman: A division of the IRS that has existed for more than a century is getting a lot of attention on social media and conservative media. Fox News host ...

Michaelle Ray stands outside the house she grew up in on the outskirts of Princeton, about 10 minutes east of McKinney. The house is part of a group of homes that her family calls “the compound.” Her ...