When the Guadalupe River overtopped its banks last July 4, Texas Monthly senior editor Aaron Parsley found himself a part of the biggest breaking news story in the state. His harrowing and deeply ...

This Labor Day holiday marks 15 years since the most destructive wildfire in recorded Texas history — measured not by acres burned, but by homes lost. The Bastrop County Complex Fire was just one of ...

Texas barbecue has never been short on swagger or people willing to argue about who does it best. But San Antonio just picked up some serious new bragging rights. Esaul and Grecia Ramos, the ...

A recent story from the Associated Press highlighted reports of poor conditions at a Texas family detention center, including instances of adults fighting children for clean water. The report sheds ...

Wizzie Brown, a program specialist with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and our go-to insect expert, is helping answer questions from kids about bugs. Is a bug the same thing as an insect?

In a Republican primary upset, Bo French, a former chair of the Tarrant County Republican Party, defeated incumbent Jim Wright for a seat on the Railroad Commission. This despite Wright’s backing from ...

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 ...

When is a river no longer a river? That’s the question posed in the latest issue of Texas Monthly. In the case of the Rio Grande, which stretches from Colorado to the Gulf, this isn’t just some idle ...

Law enforcement departments are dropping a popular gun over concerns that it can fire without a trigger pull. The P320 by SIG Sauer – a company that has for years had a strong reputation for producing ...

South Central Texas should expect “life threatening catastrophic floods” through Thursday, according to Gov. Greg Abbott. “We are dealing with and responding to a flood that is likely going to break ...

When Tony Romo joined the Dallas Cowboys back in 2003, some people confused his name with that of Tony Roma’s, the restaurant chain. They thought maybe Tony Romo was related to the Tony Roma family, ...