No matter who’s in charge, the King Ranch still rules: It’s number one on our list of the state’s top twenty spreads.

Dolph Briscoe used to govern Texas. He still owns a bigger piece of it than any individual in the world.

Once more than a million acres, the Matador Ranch is today a fraction of that size. How it got from there to here is the story of Texas ranching.

Barring a miracle, Garry Mauro will lose to George W. Bush in this November’s gubernatorial election. So why is he acting like a winner?

Houston’s new movers and shakers don’t hang with the Wyatts or Sakowitzes. They’re Eightball, Scarface, Lil’ Keke, and the other power players of the city’s rap music scene.

For the first time in its history, the world-famous King Ranch is being run by someone other than a descendant of its founder. Can the mythic institution survive a changing of the guard?

In the heady world of romance novels, our state’s writers—and readers—are passion players.

Jasper in black and white.

Up with Dell, down with Union Pacific: We rate these and other Texas stocks.

For years Houston native Chuck Knoblauch took his cues from his high school baseball coach, who also happened to be his father. Then Alzheimer’s disease changed their relationship forever.

An epilogue to Austin Stories: Why did MTV cancel the critically acclaimed slacker sitcom?

The media muff George W. Bush’s name.

From Lee Otis Johnson’s arrest to Ben Barnes’s ascent, 1968 was a hell of a year in Texas.

Inmates apologize to the families of their victims.

Poetry slammers descend on Austin.

Ann Richards ads it up.

How many times did Mary Martin shampoo onstage while appearing in South Pacific?

Defending the boy who killed his father; Ivan Rodriguez is a hit.

Salads, they do get weary, wearing that same shabby dressing. And when they get weary, Thai Spice says, try a little tenderloin.