The voice of Johnny Cash filled Howdy’s Bar and Chill in Kerrville Thursday night as friends danced and laughed over drinks. Behind the bar, owners Lorena Guillén and Bob Canales poured beers and ...

For generations, if you wanted to ring the opening bell on a stock exchange, there was really one place that mattered: New York. But Texas has long argued that as companies, jobs and investment ...

After more than a decade of declining enrollment, Texas community colleges are seeing steady gains as more students return to the classroom. Educators say the recovery reflects changing workforce ...

Juneteenth marks the moment Union troops arrived in Galveston to enforce emancipation, freeing a quarter million enslaved people in Texas in 1865. The Standard’s Sean Saldana reports on how the city ...

Cameron McCloud says his life changed before winning NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest. For years earlier, he had banked on a win to be his big break. But he says he made his own success first — and that’s what ...

From AI to cybersecurity, web pages to mobile apps, a new book offers tools for including people with all kinds of disabilities. Most people can agree that accessible technology is a good thing — even ...

Lou Diamond Phillips has been acting for decades. But his breakout role was so iconic, it’s one he’s still largely associated with. Phillips played Ritchie Valens in 1987’s “La Bamba” and then went on ...

The Texas Education Agency announced it would take over four more school districts this year, doubling the number of districts currently under a state takeover. School districts face potential state ...

NASA is hiring new talent to rebuild its core competencies and meet the agency’s aggressive moon deadlines. But this push to staff up comes just two months after thousands of civil servants received ...

Wizzie Brown, a program specialist with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and Texas Standard’s go-to insect expert, is helping answer questions from kids about bugs. She says when male and ...

“True Love Will Find You in the End” consists of original drawings, audio, photographs, correspondence and more that had been collected over the years by the late Austin artist’s friend and former ...

Stargate data center, a massive 4 million square foot complex being built in Abilene, is set to be completed by the end of the year. This is a hub of sorts for a huge AI project that the president and ...