Texas voters gave final approval on Tuesday to a wide-ranging slate of changes to the state constitution that will reshape taxes, education, public safety and infrastructure in the Lone Star State.

This story contains content that may not be suitable for children. It also features children. So maybe read it before showing it to kids. Just be an adult, please. I moved to Austin a few months ago, ...

Below this story, you’ll find the transcript of an interview with documentary filmmaker Celia Aniskovich, the director of “Fruitcake Fraud.” You can listen to audio from the story and the interview is ...

Catastrophic flooding hit the Texas Hill County on July 4 when Kerrville received 10 to 12 inches of rain in a matter of hours. The Guadalupe River rose 26 feet within 45 minutes, according to state ...

Casting a ballot takes just a few seconds. You fill in a bubble on a sheet of paper, or these days, click a button on a tablet. But the fight over who gets to participate in this most fundamental ...

Upon signing school vouchers into law last May, Governor Greg Abbott pronounced that he had delivered “education freedom to every Texas family.” But the billion-dollar program, which opens to parents ...

On Feb. 23, 1939, conjunto accordionist Esteban Jordan, aka Steve Jordan, was born in Elsa in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. He grew up in a large family of migrant farm workers and formed a band with ...

In the 1970s, Watergate, Vietnam, stagflation and secret FBI memos were among the news events that led many Americans to distrust the institutions that had formed the backbone of society. And one of ...

Joey Santore came across the idea for his book “Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance” when he noticed plants growing out of sidewalk cracks in big cities. “They ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Texas Newsroom, the state’s network of public radio stations. Something moved John Byrum. He believed he could succeed where others had not. The ...

If you’ve ever gone to a high school football game, a mega sports arena, or a movie theater, you’ve probably had some of those those salty, crispy, cheesy, spicy little paper dishes of nachos. The ...

As bitcoin mining operations have sprawled across rural Texas and other remote parts of the country, questions have arisen about their impact on the power grid. But a new concern is on the horizon as ...