Clayton Tucker will be Texas’ next agriculture commissioner, the first Democrat to hold the office since 1990, after Republican Nate Sheets conceded the race Wednesday morning. Tucker claimed victory ...

In Brownsville, Texas last October, Gina Hinojosa announced she was running for governor of Texas. Hinojosa is an attorney and state lawmaker, and at the time, few political pundits gave her candidacy ...

In the rusting oil fields north of Fort Stockton, there is a well that has been left leaking for decades — and in that time, it has created a body of water known as Lake Boehmer. The source of the ...

Who were the first peoples to inhabit Texas? It’s often the case that research yields more questions than answers. But now, there might actually be some answers lurking in a thin body of water that ...

1. Lonesome Dove was originally a much shorter screenplay. It was written 15 years earlier by Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdonavich. It was called ‘Streets of Laredo’ and was supposed to star John ...

Austin-based Apptronik makes robots that it hopes businesses will use in manufacturing, on the warehouse floor and in other places where human arms and legs are an asset. But robots, the company says, ...

The USS Gravely, a Navy destroyer, is making its way from Yorktown, Va. toward the waters off the Texas coast. The Gravely is a massive ship, outfitted with sophisticated radar and communication ...

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the federal government operated boarding schools for native children: many were forced to go. In the present moment, all eyes are on the separation of ...

Democrat Nathan Johnson defeated Republican Mayes Middleton in the race for Texas Attorney General. Johnson had 52.3% of the votes to Middleton’s 46% as of early Wednesday morning, according to the ...

All three incumbent Republicans on the Supreme Court of Texas were reelected — a blow to Democrats who had hoped backlash to the court’s abortion rulings would deliver them their first victory to the ...

This story was produced in partnership by Inside Climate News and the Texas Newsroom, the state’s network of public radio stations. Corpus Christi needs the groundwater beneath the small town of ...