As a part of a bill critics have dubbed the “Death Star” bill—an expansive law that preempts legislation in eight key areas of local government—the Legislature has overridden local ordinances that ...

Town’s historic 18th Congressional District talks about his recent primary against Al Green, ICE, voting rights, and the U.S.

A version of this story ran in the January / February 2025 issue. My second semester at Texas State University began last January. I remember the morning of January 24 not because of my new classes ...

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

Immigration agents sped after a vehicle through a residential neighborhood on the same day of the agency’s traffic stop pause ...

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

This report is part of a regular collaboration between the Texas Observer and Inside Climate News. Federal regulators have cleared a gas terminal on the Texas coast to restart commercial production of ...

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

A version of this story ran in the September / October 2025 issue. Thirteen years ago, a young mayor of San Antonio gave the keynote speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in North Carolina ...

Editor’s Note: This article was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2025 Child Welfare Impact Reporting Fund. Initial reporting was supported by a grant from the ...