Houston Mayor John Whitmire took office in 2024 with big claims about improving public safety and infrastructure. He came to the job with years of experience in the Texas Legislature. And even though ...

The Texas House of Representatives has passed Senate Bill 1816 that allows imported mini vehicles that are at least 25 years old to be driven on Texas roads. Texas joins 28 other states in legalizing ...

Weather forecasters are warning that Tropical Storm Edouard could reach hurricane strength as it heads toward the Gulf Coast. Landfall is likely to bring heavy rains, high winds and flooding to parts ...

The U.S. Senate race between Democrat James Talarico and Republican Ken Paxton is attracting big-dollar donors in Texas and beyond. Talarico is outraising Paxton, and the pro-Talarico super PAC has ...

Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. The artist’s death was confirmed in a statement from her representatives, as well as in a video posted to social media from her nephew Bryan Seaver. “A ...

At an event for a congressional candidate last October, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called Rick Perry “one of my best friends in life” and said the two “talk all the time about politics.” The former governor ...

From the American Homefront Project: It’s been more than ten months since Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced a plan to clean up the places where most younger troops live. In an October 2025 ...

Changes to the state standardized tests known as STAAR have made it difficult to compare how Texas students are doing in school in recent years, at a time when concern about the impact of the pandemic ...

Last month, immigration attorneys at a Central Texas nonprofit got a phone call that stood out to them, even amid a nationwide immigration crackdown. A 19-year-old woman who’d been living in Austin ...

Baldemar Garza Huerta, better known as Freddy Fender, was born in 1937 in the small town of San Benito in the Rio Grande Valley. His family worked in cotton fields during his childhood. Fender made ...

Flea-borne typhus is not usually deadly in the United States – the mortality rate is less than 2%. But Dr. Gregory Anstead says it’s a disease that can cause a lot of problems. “It can cause very ...