You can take the girl out of East Texas, but you can’t take East Texas out of the girl.

Portraits of the last of some exotic animals now sheltered in Texas.

Pipeline leaks, unplugged wells, toxic drilling materials, and a virtually unregulated oil industry are leaving a legacy of polluted groundwater.

Love at first bite: Valentine messages that are in good taste.

To reassure a skeptical public, members must pass an ethics reform bill this session. And here’s what it should say.

Kristin Bauman, the 21-year-old with a $1.2 million trust fund, learned early on that notoriety is far more seductive than propriety.

In 1957 General Walker warned his troops of rampant communism and lost his job. Today the world has changed, but he hasn’t.

Carrollton’s Vanilla Ice is the country’s coolest rapper, and several other Texas acts are hot on his heels.

Nearly two years after the Exxon Valdez relations gurus are busy telling industries how to avoid looking bad.

Love, love, kiss, kiss: New York’s hippest store meets Texas’ fashion capital.

Refugees from a polluted world do battle for a toxic-free zone in the Trans-Pecos.

Bodybuilder John Jacobs wants to pump you up-for Jesus.

Singers Edie Brickell and Sara Hickman share a formula for success attend the right school and take up art.

A tiny Houston delivery firm did-and now it has the broadest trucking rights ever granted in Texas.

With clean, well-lighted places-filled with bargains-Forth Worth-based Cash America is spiffing up the sullied image of pawnshops.