Texas lawmakers passed a bill in 2025 that allowed families to use public taxpayer dollars to fund their children’s education at an accredited private school or pay for a variety of other ...
Deep into the night, heat from the 100 degree day radiates off the sidewalk outside of Elysium, Austin’s oldest goth bar. It’ll celebrate 25 years this year. By 10 p.m. on the Sunday I went, dancers ...
During his 16 seasons as an NBA head coach, Mike D’Antoni made a name for himself with his fast-paced, “seven seconds or less” offense-oriented system. It’s a system that saw him win NBA Coach of the ...
This month some of the country’s best sketch comedy performers will head to ColdTowne Theater in the Texas capital city for this year’s Austin Sketch Fest. “We review dozens of submissions every year ...
Aida Barrera was never trained as a teacher and didn’t know anything about television. But in 1962, she got a job in TV that started her on a path that would lead her to becoming a pioneer in the ...
Big Bend is one of the more remote and less-visited national parks in the country. But it’s been getting some national attention in recent months: Federal officials have faced scrutiny over constantly ...
Here are the stories on Texas Standard for Monday, Jan. 27, 2026. Check back later today for updated story links and audio. Detainees protest conditions at South Texas migrant center People detained ...
My favorite snack as a teenager was a Dr Pepper with salty peanuts. You remember: you pour the peanuts into the Dr Pepper and let them float around and season the drink. Didn’t get much better than ...
Three years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would take the extraordinary step of building a state-funded wall along the Mexico border, he has 34 miles of steel bollards to show for it. That ...
Last week, automaker Tesla filed paperwork with the Secretary of State’s office to reincorporate the company here in Texas. The company used to be incorporated in Delaware, but in January CEO Elon ...
Author David Streitfeld was not yet ready to call “Lonesome Dove” a great American novel. “But it’s certainly the great Texas novel,” he said. “And it seems like a lot of people — in Texas and outside ...
Gov. Greg Abbott blasted the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to preserve birthright citizenship on Tuesday, calling it “a missed opportunity” after the justices rejected President Donald Trump’s effort ...