Texas voters gave final approval on Tuesday to a wide-ranging slate of changes to the state constitution that will reshape taxes, education, public safety and infrastructure in the Lone Star State.

Below this story, you’ll find the transcript of an interview with documentary filmmaker Celia Aniskovich, the director of “Fruitcake Fraud.” You can listen to audio from the story and the interview is ...

Casting a ballot takes just a few seconds. You fill in a bubble on a sheet of paper, or these days, click a button on a tablet. But the fight over who gets to participate in this most fundamental ...

Catastrophic flooding hit the Texas Hill County on July 4 when Kerrville received 10 to 12 inches of rain in a matter of hours. The Guadalupe River rose 26 feet within 45 minutes, according to state ...

Upon signing school vouchers into law last May, Governor Greg Abbott pronounced that he had delivered “education freedom to every Texas family.” But the billion-dollar program, which opens to parents ...

Joey Santore came across the idea for his book “Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance” when he noticed plants growing out of sidewalk cracks in big cities. “They ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Texas Newsroom, the state’s network of public radio stations. Something moved John Byrum. He believed he could succeed where others had not. The ...

If you’ve ever gone to a high school football game, a mega sports arena, or a movie theater, you’ve probably had some of those those salty, crispy, cheesy, spicy little paper dishes of nachos. The ...

As bitcoin mining operations have sprawled across rural Texas and other remote parts of the country, questions have arisen about their impact on the power grid. But a new concern is on the horizon as ...

Texas barbecue, like Texas itself, has many origins. There’s the Mexican influence, which you can taste when you bite into a juicy barbacoa taco, and then there’s the influence of Germans and Czechs ...

The saga of Lubbock’s Reagor-Dykes Auto Group is a long one, filled with murky details and convoluted legal wrangling. Three years after the West Texas company went bankrupt, more than 15 people have ...

Researchers exploring Phantom Springs Cave near Balmorhea have documented new species in one of North America’s deepest underwater cave systems. The fragile ecosystem, accessible only to specialized ...