Like other sea urchins, they have an amazing feeding structure called Aristotle’s lantern. It contains five teeth that allow the urchin to scrape and chew food. Atlantic purple sea urchins are ...

Texas is a notably easy place to set up shop for industrial projects with lots of liquid waste and nowhere good to put it. The state’s waterways are open for business, an analysis of Environmental ...

Buy-Rite Foods is the kind of place shoppers can pick up a little bit of everything, from flour to toothpaste, in the small town of Pond Creek in central Oklahoma. “There’s a lot of regulars that we ...

On the evening of July 1, Luis Medrano called Houston police for help after his wife had gotten violent and punched him twice in the face during a schizophrenic episode in which she was hearing ...

Medicaid in Texas covers close to 6 million people, everyone from cancer patients to pregnant people to kids across the state. That coverage means people have access to doctor’s appointments, hospital ...

About 300 years ago, Spanish missionaries abandoned a site in what’s now Jackson County, in the middle of Texas’ Coastal Bend. Mission Nuestra Señora del Espiritu Santo was part of a struggle between ...

“The Johnny Canales Show” originally aired in the 1980s and became a hit in many Latino households. Based in Corpus Chrisi, the show was soon broadcast across the U.S. and parts of Mexico. But before ...

Monica Gallagher is an Austin-based cartoonist: “I do a lot of romance comics, slice of life comics, whole gamut. And recently I got into cryptids.” Gallagher blames her listening habits for her ...

For many Texans, colonias evoke images of mismatched shanties, dusty roads and children wading through excrement-rich floodwaters after heavy rainfall. That’s also how people who testified before ...

The fight over a new border wall in the Big Bend region isn’t just between residents and the Trump administration anymore. Increasingly, it’s neighbor against neighbor. According to reporting from ...

Earlier this year, renowned Texas writer Joe Nick Patoski released his 10th Texas-centric book titled “Austin to ATX: The Hippies, Pickers, Slackers & Geeks Who Transformed The Capital of Texas.” It’s ...

For years now, there’s been a fight in Henderson County over who gets to use a much-loved fishing hole. Henderson County is a rural area southeast of Dallas, stippled with lakes, ponds and streambeds.