Houston Mayor John Whitmire took office in 2024 with big claims about improving public safety and infrastructure. He came to the job with years of experience in the Texas Legislature. And even though ...

The Texas House of Representatives has passed Senate Bill 1816 that allows imported mini vehicles that are at least 25 years old to be driven on Texas roads. Texas joins 28 other states in legalizing ...

The U.S. Senate race between Democrat James Talarico and Republican Ken Paxton is attracting big-dollar donors in Texas and beyond. Talarico is outraising Paxton, and the pro-Talarico super PAC has ...

HUTTO, Texas — When Alek Micklethwait received his electricity bill in May, he was stunned. It was $545, more than double what his family had been paying during cooler weather, since moving into a ...

Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. The artist’s death was confirmed in a statement from her representatives, as well as in a video posted to social media from her nephew Bryan Seaver. “A ...

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 ...

The U.S.-Canada trade dispute escalated this week after the Trump administration imposed 50 percent tariffs on billions of dollars in Canadian goods and Ottawa responded with retaliatory tariffs of ...

Dolly Parton had millions of fans in Texas, but relatively few direct ties to the state. One of the strongest was with a man who’s been helping to define the sound of Texas music for more than a half ...

Changes to the state standardized tests known as STAAR have made it difficult to compare how Texas students are doing in school in recent years, at a time when concern about the impact of the pandemic ...

From the American Homefront Project: It’s been more than ten months since Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced a plan to clean up the places where most younger troops live. In an October 2025 ...

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 ...