Inside Books Project volunteers have sent used books to Texas inmates for nearly 30 years. A new crackdown is threatening ...

The party’s convention showcased populism as the core of Texas Democrats’ messaging. Will it hold true in November?

Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region’s reservoir system turned this year’s drought conditions into an emergency.

State funding and policy have fallen short, advocates say, and the consequences are not confined to your backyard.

Every day the Permian Basin brings up more water than nearby communities use, and treats most of it as waste. The state can ...

On May 20, a black hearse drawn by dark horses led the march of University of Texas at Austin students, clad all in black ...

These deaths are on Biden,” Abbott posted on social media about the then-president, going on to say that “deadly open border ...

The world’s largest artificial intelligence data center complex is being built in Amarillo, and it’s almost seven times the size of Central Park. On June 26, 2025, Fermi America, an AI development ...

A version of this story ran in the May / June 2022 issue. The moment seemed to call for drastic action. Lucille Contreras’ youngest son was on his own, ranching buffalo on the Pine Ridge Lakota ...

It was mid-afternoon on September 28, 2021, when Antelmo Ramirez began acting strange. A 57-year-old originally from the Mexican state of Nuevo León, Ramirez was working at the sprawling construction ...