Soon after polls close at 7 p.m. on Election Day, election officials begin to post early voting totals that will give Texans their first glimpse of results. But knowing the actual outcome of the ...

Austin’s support of a housing development called The Sasha recently received $1 million to build a 60-unit housing development. The development will support human trafficking victim and children ...

Birdwatchers rejoice: It’s almost time for the cranes to come back to Texas. Flocks of sandhill cranes, and the world’s only flock of wild whooping cranes, will be settling in the Lone Star State for ...

The Sorcerer’s Cave is the deepest cave in Texas. It is 567 feet to the bottom, or, as I like to say in Texan, “damnear two football fields deep.” The first part of this cave goes down quickly: Cavers ...

If you walk into your local library, you can borrow a book or ask for help with a research question. You can also get help with your resume, access the internet on public computers, borrow a movie, or ...

Before she moved from Austin to Rhode Island, everybody knew Lacey as one half of an inseparable duo with her best friend, Grace. Lacey is ready to reinvent herself at her new school, but middle ...

A high school state football championship in Texas is arguably about more than just temporary bragging rights. It’s a guaranteed story that will be told for generations, with a record that will be ...

Months after having to vacate six churches, a group of North Texas Episcopalians is back in legal limbo. A fight over money and church belongings has added more fuel to a court battle that has already ...

Thrips are very, very small insects. If you want to see if they are on your plants, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service program specialist and Texas Standard’s go-to insect expert Wizzie Brown ...

On May 2, 1923, country songwriter Ruby Nell Allmond was born in Fannin County. Almond hailed from a musical family, performing in church from the age of four and forming a band with her siblings in ...

On May 20 and 21, 1975, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and the Mothers of Invention recorded the live album Bongo Fury at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin. Zappa had played the hall a few ...