Some bills passed by the state Legislature are more consequential than others. Some become law and then go more or less unnoticed. Others, like Senate Bill 2038, make a deep impact immediately. SB ...

The Trump administration’s DOGE program has fired hundreds of park rangers across the United States, and that painful process has also affected staffers at the San Antonio Missions National Park.

Texas lawmakers just wrapped up the legislative session after thousands of hours of debating over thousands of bills — all in just 140 days. And as you may or may not know, the state’s lawmakers meet ...

More than a million Texans are on the voter suspense list as of March of this year including 71,004 Travis County residents, 12,078 Hays County residents and 36,050 Williamson County residents. Being ...

Buy-Rite Foods is the kind of place shoppers can pick up a little bit of everything, from flour to toothpaste, in the small town of Pond Creek in central Oklahoma. “There’s a lot of regulars that we ...

On Sunday, Bo French, the Republican candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioner, posted a series of xenophobic social media posts taking aim at students of color celebrating at the University of Texas ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was a disturbance in the force for Texas cities and counties this legislative session. A bill dubbed the Death Star Bill — after the moon-sized technological terrors of Star Wars fame — passed ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, renowned Texas writer Joe Nick Patoski released his 10th Texas-centric book titled “Austin to ATX: The Hippies, Pickers, Slackers & Geeks Who Transformed The Capital of Texas.” It’s ...

This story was reported and produced in collaboration with Martha Pskowski, a reporter at Inside Climate News. This is the second story in a three-part series on the town of Toyah and the water issues ...