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 ...

The first candidate to announce a bid for Texas attorney general has dropped out of the race. This week, former U.S. Attorney John Bash said he would be withdrawing from the race to replace Ken Paxton ...

The Texas Standard is excited to share the Beachchombing Report from Jace Tunnell, Director of Community Engagement for the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. The series ...

Texas is one of seven states, all in the South, that does not pay people in prison for their work. A new report by the Global Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School and the ...

The Texas Rangers have always cast a long shadow in the Lone Star State. The law enforcement agency has had a hand in many high-profile criminal cases, and its members have been dramatized in movies, ...

Country music icon Johnny Cash’s life has been well-explored over the years. The 2005 film “Walk the Line” focused primarily on his relationship with fellow icon June Carter, but doesn’t focus as much ...

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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the federal ban on bump stocks Friday, declaring that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives exceeded its authority when it banned the devices on ...

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 ...

Here are the stories on Texas Standard for Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. What’s behind ICE detention deaths in Texas? In the span of just six weeks between December and January, six people died while ...

Just weeks before summer camp season, only three Texas camps had been licensed under new safety laws passed after last year’s deadly Hill Country floods. Sarah Bahari of The Dallas Morning News joins ...

President Donald Trump had announced last weekend that he would deploy ICE to some U.S. airports this week. This included Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, which saw lines of more than ...