Proposed projects are driven by sketchy numbers nobody has to prove: inflated demand, water use most companies never report, ...

After the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, local authorities have struggled to stake their claim on an investigation ...

A version of this story ran in the December 2012 issue. June 18, 2010, marked the end of Ray Wauson’s third week as an armored-car guard for Triple D Security in Victoria, and the first day they let ...

A version of this story ran in the July / August 2026 issue. When Michelle Wright Rhame was asked to be a foster mother, she saw it as a divine calling. She had always wanted to be a mom, but she ...

I was molded from the clay soil in Deep East Texas, in the small city of Lufkin. This region has an antebellum history ...

From the biggest cities to smaller towns, local officials wrote serious climate plans. One law at a time, state policy has ...

We’re gonna be riding around areas where most everybody thinks it’s unsafe, and you’re gonna see that there’s really nothing ...

Students will learn that life circumstances are beyond their power to change. They will learn that their place in the economy ...

A version of this story ran in the July / August 2026 issue. In 2022, longtime Tarrant County Judge R. Glen Whitley, a consummate moderate Republican, opted to retire after a nearly 30-year reign.

Bobby Pulido descended a staircase bedecked in flowers to face the quinceañara in her shimmering blue ball gown. Her magnificent hoop skirt swayed as the Tejano star-turned-South Texas Democratic ...

Renewables brought income to ranchers and tax revenue to counties long buffeted by boom-and-bust oil cycles. Policy changes in Washington and unease on the ground threaten that momentum. On an ...

Over the course of filming two documentaries about the fathers of transgender and nonbinary children, Luchina Fisher has watched these families’ rights rapidly erode. “In [2023], we thought things ...