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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Texas has two main programs serving pregnant people without insurance: pregnancy Medicaid and CHIP Perinatal. Both programs have income requirements based on federal guidelines and limited coverage ...

If you want to understand Texas, you can begin with a map, but you learn a lot more by getting out onto the land itself. A new PBS series pairs “The Daytripper” host, Chet Garner, with scientists from ...

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 ...