Here are the stories on Texas Standard for Monday, April 6, 2026. Check back later today for updated story links and audio. How redistricting shaped Houston’s District 18 runoff race An ...

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 ...

Aida Barrera was never trained as a teacher and didn’t know anything about television. But in 1962, she got a job in TV that started her on a path that would lead her to becoming a pioneer in the ...

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 ...

When migrants who are deaf interact with immigration enforcement officials, they are supposed to have access to a sign language interpreter. But new reporting from Mother Jones has found that some of ...

In Texas, 774 new state laws took effect last Friday. Under one of them, SB 1124, candidates for sheriff now need to have a peace officers license. Up until now, there was no law enforcement ...

A multistate surrogacy controversy poses significant ethical questions about the practice, according to a leading medical ethics and surrogacy expert. The case centers on an Alaska woman acting as a ...

Texas is one of a few states that uses purple as an official warning color. That’s unlike much of the rest of the world that uses orange to identify hazards, based on standards established by the ...

There are some phrases in the game show world that carry more weight than others: “Is that your final answer?” “Would you like to buy a vowel?” “Deal or no deal?“ But three words stand above them all: ...

Quanah Parker was the most feared of the Comanche chiefs on the Texas frontier. He was half white and half Comanche. He was taller and stronger and faster and more clever than any other chief of his ...

This is the third story in a three-part series about HemisFair ’68. For part one, click here. For part two, click here. Today, if you stand at the site where San Antonio held a World’s Fair 50 years ...

Agriculture remains one of Texas’ most robust and profitable industries. In 2022, Texas farms sold more than $32 billion in agricultural products – and nearly half of that came from cattle farms. Many ...