Like other sea urchins, they have an amazing feeding structure called Aristotle’s lantern. It contains five teeth that allow the urchin to scrape and chew food. Atlantic purple sea urchins are ...

Texas has long been a source of money for political candidates around the country, but the state also attracts plenty of wealthy donors from out of state – drawn here by particular causes, and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Johnny Canales Show” originally aired in the 1980s and became a hit in many Latino households. Based in Corpus Chrisi, the show was soon broadcast across the U.S. and parts of Mexico. But before ...

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 ...

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 ...

The fight over a new border wall in the Big Bend region isn’t just between residents and the Trump administration anymore. Increasingly, it’s neighbor against neighbor. According to reporting from ...

For top Texas lawmakers, suing the federal government has been a bit of a shtick over the past several years. Since 2008, the state has sued the feds 60 times, according to the Dallas Morning News.

Sixty six million years ago, a massive asteroid collided with the Gulf of Mexico, killing the dinosaurs in a mass extinction event. The event was catastrophic for many species, and it created a “dead ...

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 ...