The race to defeat Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick is an uphill climb in a state where the conservative incumbent is a household name and Democrats haven’t won a statewide office in over thirty years.

The 2026 Winter Olympics are upon us, but Houstonians with a penchant for the slopes have little reason to celebrate. The city receives an average of 0.1 inches of snowfall annually and is flatter ...

Early voting begins today, January 21, and runs through January 27, in two special elections with national implications. In Senate District 9, Tarrant County voters will choose a replacement for Kelly ...

Despite warnings, Feel Free gained mainstream traction across Texas—including on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, where the drink was distributed at student events under official ...

For years, local law enforcement agencies have partnered with ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement). But this partnership, formally known as the 287(g) program, has ramped to bigger heights ...

Cesar Mendez, superintendent of Franklin Mountains State Park in El Paso, is a soft-spoken man who has the sort of voice custom-built for explaining the importance of local geology to schoolchildren.

Texas is where one in four ICE arrests have occurred across the United States in the first half of 2025 – more than any other state. That single number, from the Texas Tribune’s deep dive into ...

If the road to the revolution is a long one, the journey might as well be fun. That’s what Bread and Puppet Theater has been doing since 1963, when Peter and Elka Schumann founded it in New York City, ...

On Thursday August 28, the Texas House began debating the latest bill looking to restrict abortion in a state that already has multiple abortion bans. The bill, also known as House Bill 7, would allow ...

In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Cassius declares, “How many ages, hence, shall this, our lofty scene, be acted over in states unborn and accents yet unknown?” He was talking about stabbing a ...

Three years ago, the Supreme Court announced their decision in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the landmark decision Roe v. Wade. The outcome was not a surprise ...

The phrase “luv ya, blue” is synonymous with Houston thanks to the Oilers football team, but maybe the phrase should be “luv ya, blues.” The Bayou City is one of the most important places in the ...