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 ...

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 ...

Texas is one of seven states, all in the South, that does not pay people in prison for their work. A new report by the Global Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School and the ...

My friend Jac Darsnek, owner of the always remarkable Traces of Texas Web page sent me a message recently. He asked if I had ever told the story of Dora Hand on the radio. I said, no, but I will.

Today, the Llano Estacado has been immortalized in art. Just think of the lyrics from this song from Gary P. Nunn: It’s the Llano Estacado/It’s the Brazos and the Colorado/Spirit of the people down ...

“When you’re cooking and grilling,” Arnulfo “Arnie” Segovia tells me as we wait for the grill to heat up in the backyard of his McAllen home, “at the end of the day, it’s super simple.” Segovia is a ...

If you want to understand Texas, you can begin with a map, but you learn a lot more by getting out onto the land itself. A new PBS series pairs “The Daytripper” host, Chet Garner, with scientists from ...

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 ...

On March 23, 1993, Capitol Records released the Butthole Surfers’ album Independent Worm Saloon. With Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones as producer, the band assembled a sprawling set of psychedelic hard ...

South Texas cities like Corpus Christi, Sinton, and Orange Grove continue to argue over water supply and various projects this year, but it’s not really anything new when you look back on the history ...

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 ...