The Big Three are desperate to save their property tax proposal. Among the ideas to buy down property taxes is an increase in the oil and gas severance tax.
In a new presidential poll of Texas, Beto, Bernie, and Biden all look competitive against Trump. But it's far too early to make too much of that.
No shower caps, bonnets, Do-rags, or saggy pants? The principal’s dress code for parents is about more than just school-appropriate attire.
At hearings in El Paso, asylum seekers forced to stay in Juarez told of violence and fear.
Big-city prosecutors are now driving the conversation around mass incarceration, and some lawmakers and law enforcement officials just can’t abide that.
The state’s senior U.S. senator is calling out Joaquin Castro and MJ Hegar in particular.
More than 100 of the company's 400 cars in Chicago were stolen via its own app.
If you’re going to traffick in conspiracy theories, at least be nice about it.
Texas’s two biggest metropolitan areas spend entirely too much time on their phones while behind the wheel.
Many Texans think their property taxes are too high. But the highly regressive sales tax would put even more of a burden on those who can least afford it.
After a community outcry, the company behind ACL Fest and Lollapalooza postpones its plans for an event next year, but the future is uncertain.
The Tigua and Alabama-Coushatta tribes may soon be forced to shutter their gaming operations after courts again rule them illegal.
The new rule uses geofencing technology to force vehicles on the college campus to slow down.
Carly Mayo, eighteen, is now back in Tyler and living with her mom as she reckons with her past.
The kickoff keynote from the massively popular Houston author ended with a Townes Van Zandt singalong.
Critics of the forthcoming transformation of the state’s child welfare system worry about the new model’s lack of transparency. Legislators are running out of time to introduce greater safeguards.
It's the latest in a string of legal rulings that have chipped away at the Lone Star State’s once-heralded open records laws.
No one can explain why. Not even Southwest Key, the nonprofit shelter that keeps telling refugees they have no other choice.
Because the charges were dismissed pretrial, prosecutors have the right to refile a criminal complaint.
Monica Roberts, the author of the long-running blog, was told only that the service suspended her platform in error—before it did so again.
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The TSA would like to remind you not to bring your firearms through the security checkpoint.
TPWD's fundraising from Apache Corporation and hundreds of Texans will support repairs at the park.
That viral video of a Colorado senator berating Ted Cruz makes one wonder if there’s a double standard at work.
From affordable housing to Border Patrol, the shutdown is causing problems all over the state.
The Southwest Airlines cofounder was a pioneering entrepreneur who changed the way we travel. He was also a world-class wit, a bon vivant, and a not-so-closet intellectual.
Police say the seven-year-old was fatally shot on a feeder road near a Harris County Walmart. Two suspects are in custody.
Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink.
How prosecutors tied a brazen murder in an upscale Dallas suburb to one of Mexico’s most violent criminal organizations.
The man reportedly exited the vehicle and began ranting.
The two-minute video taken from a DPS helicopter shows the last minutes of Mark Conditt's life.
Inspired by his relationship with his own brother, Kenneth DeVon's life mission is to help Houston's homeless population.
Developers are pitted against landowners over a solution that keeps the peace and preserves the lake.
Kingsville native Reality Winner will serve the longest sentence so far under the Espionage Act.
The National Voter Registration Act prohibits removing ineligible voters from voter rolls within 90 days of a federal election. That’s just what the Harris County registrar tried to do.
Texas leads the country in hot-car deaths of children. Was Michael Thedford a horrible father, or did he make a mistake any parent could make?
He worked 80-hour weeks to send money home to his family. The driver who ran him over had been in and out of trouble for years.
On this week's National Podcast of Texas, Andy Langer also speaks with singer-songwriter Radney Foster on his newly recorded “prayer for the border.”
Austin immigration attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch says the system is seemingly designed to use speedy family reunification to pressure parents into deportation.
The case of a man who slaughtered his family, then gouged out his eyes, will be reviewed Tuesday by an appellate court panel in New Orleans.
Plus: barbecue summer camp, protest through barbecue, possible barbecue cannibalism, and much, much more.
Dozens of gang members face charges ranging from trafficking methamphetamines to kidnapping.
Priscilla Villarreal doesn’t work for the local news in Laredo—but for her 80,000 Facebook followers, that doesn’t matter.
The University of Texas at Austin was their latest target.
Some crazy stuff went down last month. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
Fifty years ago, when Claire Wilson was eighteen, she was critically wounded during the 1966 UT Tower shooting. How does the path of a bullet change a life?
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
The small town in the Rio Grande Valley ranked first in the country on NerdWallet’s list of best cities for women in the workforce.
In Reynosa, a brave and conflicted group of social media users goes where journalists fear to tread.
