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 ...

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 ...

Tom Landry and Charles Schulz died on the same day: Feb. 12, 2000. Mike Thompson, the Detroit Free Press cartoonist honored them both with a cartoon showing them entering the pearly gates together.

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 ...

South Texas cities like Corpus Christi, Sinton, and Orange Grove continue to argue over water supply and various projects this year, but it’s not really anything new when you look back on the history ...

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, ...

March 31st marks the twentieth anniversary of the death of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez. Called “The Queen of Tejano Music,” Quintanilla-Pérez was shot dead by her friend and former employee Yolanda ...

The Texas Standard and public radio stations across the state have been working together to help you make sense of the midterms through our Texas Decides project, inviting listeners to send in their ...