The history of cowboys and the Wild West is much more complex than what pop culture has, in many ways, mythologized for decades. Part of that complexity is who actually were cowboys. Take, for example ...

Sometimes you know you’re getting closer to home just by listening to the people around you. Roberto José Andrade Franco wrote he gets that feeling at the airport gate, waiting for a flight back home ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

March 31st marks the twentieth anniversary of the death of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez. Called “The Queen of Tejano Music,” Quintanilla-Pérez was shot dead by her friend and former employee Yolanda ...

The Texas Rangers have always cast a long shadow in the Lone Star State. The law enforcement agency has had a hand in many high-profile criminal cases, and its members have been dramatized in movies, ...

Louise Harrison, George Harrison’s older sister, was living in the United States when the Beatles debuted on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in February, 1964. She had been lobbying radio stations for months ...

A for-profit school in Austin is doing things differently. Alpha School has received a lot of national attention for its innovative use of AI in the classroom. But the school also places a strong ...

The power went out for millions of Texans during a massive storm in February 2021. Hundreds of people died. How could something like this happen in the energy capital of the U.S.? Hosted by Mose ...

Polls have closed. Find election results for the constitutional amendments here. This November, Texas voters will decide 17 proposed amendments to the state constitution. Only lawmakers can place ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas—The imminent depletion of water supplies in Corpus Christi threatens to cut off the flow of jet fuel to Texas airports and other oil exports from one of the nation’s largest ...