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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA is hiring new talent to rebuild its core competencies and meet the agency’s aggressive moon deadlines. But this push to staff up comes just two months after thousands of civil servants received ...

In the Dallas Texans’ single 1952 season in the NFL, the team posted a record of 1-11, were demoted midseason, and their assets were returned to the league – eventually to be awarded to the Baltimore ...

An unusually large number of candidates are facing formal challenges ahead of the March primaries, particularly in North Texas. Party officials argue some filings don’t meet eligibility requirements, ...

A recent poll from the University of Houston’s Hobby School shows Attorney General Ken Paxton slightly ahead of incumbent U.S. Senator John Cornyn in the runoff for his seat. But by another measure – ...