The federal government remains shut down after a weekend of very little movement on negotiations. In Texas, the shutdowns meant thousands of federal workers in the Lone Star State have been going to ...

Wizzie Brown, a program specialist with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and our go-to insect expert, is helping answer questions from kids about bugs. Is a bug the same thing as an insect?

Monica Gallagher is an Austin-based cartoonist: “I do a lot of romance comics, slice of life comics, whole gamut. And recently I got into cryptids.” Gallagher blames her listening habits for her ...

Sen. Ted Cruz is not up for reelection until 2030. But Texas’ junior senator nonetheless appears to be hitting the campaign trail, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. Cruz recently ...

College student Lily Chen is off to spend the summer in Taipei at an intensive language program. Like many Chinese-American students before her, she signed up, hoping to connect with her culture. But ...

For many Texans, colonias evoke images of mismatched shanties, dusty roads and children wading through excrement-rich floodwaters after heavy rainfall. That’s also how people who testified before ...

Medicaid in Texas covers close to 6 million people, everyone from cancer patients to pregnant people to kids across the state. That coverage means people have access to doctor’s appointments, hospital ...

There’s no place like Texas. And if you’re holding a bunch of patents, there’s no place like the Eastern District of Texas. U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap hears more patent cases than any other ...

In January 2019, EEP, an eclectic shoegaze band, formed in El Paso, Texas. Less than two years later, they’re receiving international recognition for a high-energy, eight-song album called “Death of a ...

Fifty years ago, an album came out with a title and a lineup of artists that seemed calculated to capture and capitalize on a moment. They were country artists, giving a kind of musical middle finger ...

One of the most fascinating Texas Rangers of all time was Samuel Hamilton Walker — no relation, we should say right off the bat, to Chuck Norris’ fictional character Cordell Walker. Many Ranger ...

Here are the stories on Texas Standard for Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. Ken Paxton’s campaign ad creates an AI James Talarico Attorney General Ken Paxton’s campaign uses AI imagery to claim his ...