Ben Kweller has been playing music most of his life, reaching the kind of success most artists only dream of before he was even out of his teens. That musicianship and raw talent would be passed down ...

More than 3,500 people have been prosecuted for misdemeanor marijuana possession in Harris County over the past three years. Houston voters will soon decide whether to direct police to deprioritize ...

In 1909, in the little town of Shiner, Texas, a group of German and Czech farmers decided they missed the beer of the old country. They pooled their money, built a ramshackle brewery, and called it ...

The name for one of Texas’ popular amusement parks, Six Flags Over Texas, comes from history. The slogan is used to describe the six different countries that, at one time or another, had sovereignty ...

Two Texas counties more than 300 miles away from each other are engaged in a legal fight over tax breaks for affordable housing. The housing finance corporation for Cameron County, along the southern ...

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 ...

Texas has been majority white since at least the mid 1800s, but Hispanics have been expected to overtake the majority for some time. Now, new data shows that happened at some time in 2022. The U.S.

“He packed up my mom, my sister and me, and we all moved to Texas.” “I was offered to come to Beaumont, Texas to build a restaurant. … It quickly became as bad, or worse than what I left in Michigan.

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 ...

Garnet Coleman, a Democrat who represented Houston’s House District 147 in the Texas Legislature for more than 30 years, died Wednesday at the age of 65. According to a statement from his family, ...

Violence in the wake of the capture and death of Mexican cartel leader Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, also known as “El Mencho,” has affected a number of Mexican states and led the U.S. government ...

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 ...