Hurricane Beryl, which blew into Texas on July 8, knocked out power at the prison where he lives, among several other Texas ...

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An Observer investigation has found irregularities in how the Houston ISD superintendent's Colorado charter school nonprofit ...

Two years after the constitutional right to abortion was eliminated, what’s left of Texans’ reproductive rights is ambiguous.

A version of this story ran in the July / August 2024 issue. William Hanson is not your typical biographical subject. Dead ...

Ruben Gutierrez was convicted of murder in 1999 under Texas’ “Law of Parties.” He says he had nothing to do with the killing.

Because the state refuses to pay us for our labor, incarcerated women rely on money from the outside to get by.

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Food spoils when the power goes out, exposing more people to hunger and food insecurity. But the crisis goes deeper than that ...