The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court return to the bench today for the start of a new term — and they do so at a moment when the institution itself is under scrutiny. A new Gallup survey puts ...

“When you’re cooking and grilling,” Arnulfo “Arnie” Segovia tells me as we wait for the grill to heat up in the backyard of his McAllen home, “at the end of the day, it’s super simple.” Segovia is a ...

Birdwatchers rejoice: It’s almost time for the cranes to come back to Texas. Flocks of sandhill cranes, and the world’s only flock of wild whooping cranes, will be settling in the Lone Star State for ...

In 1915, one of the earliest coast-to-coast highways was built through Texas as it passed through all Southern states. In West Texas it ran along the U.S.–Mexico border and was known as the Bankhead ...

Thrips are very, very small insects. If you want to see if they are on your plants, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service program specialist and Texas Standard’s go-to insect expert Wizzie Brown ...

Texas’ environmental regulator this week issued the largest air pollution permit in the country to an enormous planned complex of gas power plants and data centers near the oilfields of the Permian ...

Louise Harrison, George Harrison’s older sister, was living in the United States when the Beatles debuted on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in February, 1964. She had been lobbying radio stations for months ...

The 2026 Texas Democratic Convention will be held in Corpus Christi this Thursday through Saturday. Delegates will consider nearly 20 resolutions targeting Israel amid its ongoing war against Hamas, ...

The Texas Rangers have always cast a long shadow in the Lone Star State. The law enforcement agency has had a hand in many high-profile criminal cases, and its members have been dramatized in movies, ...

A for-profit school in Austin is doing things differently. Alpha School has received a lot of national attention for its innovative use of AI in the classroom. But the school also places a strong ...

Texas House Democrats have left the state to delay congressional redistricting set to favor Republicans. If all this sounds familiar, it’s probably because Texas Democrats walked out in 2021, in 2003, ...