Austin Named “America’s Fastest Growing City”
The city tops Forbes' annual list for the second year in a row, while Dallas, Houston, San Antonio all crack the top ten.
The city tops Forbes' annual list for the second year in a row, while Dallas, Houston, San Antonio all crack the top ten.
It's just about official: the beloved Austin theater chain plans to open up in Richardson.
During a National Day of Prayer breakfast, Rick Perry said God will forgive his "oops" moment. We remember a few other things God told him.
Texas can now exclude Planned Parenthood from its Women's Health Program, after an appeals court judge reversed a lower court's injunction.
In the last ten years, DNA has exonerated 32 men from Dallas County.
The Abilene-born singer announced the arrival of Maxwell Drew Johnson on her website Tuesday.
It's 10 a.m. - do you know what conference your college football team is in? Now that the Big 12, SEC and Big East are all settled, here's a scorecard for the rest.
One year after the Rock House fire, more than 20,000 acres in Jeff Davis County are aflame.
The two Texans will star in True Detective, a multi-layered noir about a serial killer in Louisiana.
Ron Paul debated economic policy with New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on Bloomberg Television, but the throwdown had no teeth.
Our favorite recent items from the Lufkin Daily News' police blotter.
The $850 weekend delivered on the food, wine and great chefs, but it came with a side of long lines and harsh dust.
The Republican presidential candidate's campaign stop at the University of Texas had the vibe of an Austin rock festival.
University of Texas system chancellor Francisco Cigarroa relents on the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.-Andy Lee fight at the Sun Bowl, with a few conditions.
Beunka Adams, who was pronounced dead on Thursday night at 6:25 p.m., participated in a deadly convenience store robbery in 2002.
Live Fire!, held Thursday night at the Salt Lick Pavillion in Driftwood, proved to be the perfect meaty event to kick off this weekend's Austin Wine & Food Festival.
David Jones, one of Overton's defense attorneys during her 2007 trial, broke down on the stand.
To mark Bernie's release, Slate ranks the entire ouevre of Austin's top auteur. But did they get it right?
Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III were picked up yesterday, but day two of the draft belongs to Midwestern State offensive lineman Amini Silatolu.
The convicted polygamist leader tells that Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that, unless he is freed, God will send down "full whirlwind judgements" on the nation.
Only 29 percent of Texans would support Perry for a fourth full term.
Only six states are considered less peaceful than Texas, according to a new report from the Institute for Economics and Peace.
With Newt Gingrich dropping out, the governor endorses the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
Ex-prosecutor Sandra Eastwood is put on the hot seat and questioned about whether or not she withheld critical evidence from the defense.
The Dallas-based billionaire is investing in Planetary Resources, a company that aims to begin mining asteroids for valuable metals by 2020.
A recent study found that suburbs appear to be losing their luster to Houstonians, who expressed a preference for a more urban livestyle.
The leading salt poisoning expert testified on the second day of Overton's hearing.
Smithsonian magazine names the West Texas cultural oasis one of the "20 Best Small Towns in America."
The former Texas Board of Education chair talks creationism, textbooks, and whether man and dinosaurs lived contemporaneously on The Colbert Report.
With the May 29 primary five weeks away, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst and former Dallas mayor Tom Leppert run two spots attacking their opponents.
The Republican senator from Massachusetts calls the Austin supermarket chain's sustainability standards "political correctness ... based on uncertain science."
Executive Editor Pamela Colloff reports from Nueces County, where testimony in the Hannah Overton hearing focused on scientific evidence supporting the Corpus Christi homemaker's claims of innocence.
The Revisionaries, a new documentary about the State Board of Education, received rave reviews after its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Karl Rove's Super PAC netted $30.5 million—more than half of its total donations—from three Texan titans.
A crowd gathered on 4/20 on Willie Nelson Boulevard, in Austin, to watch the unveiling of an eight-foot, one-ton bronze rendering of the Red Headed Stranger.
The Bureau of Land Management is conducting an environmental study on Madeleine Pickens's plan to build a Nevada ecotourism sanctuary where thousands of the nation's wild mustangs could roam.
A judge forbidding use of MySpace? Accidental live microphones? Calling Barry Bonds to testify? And the second Clemens trial isn't even done with jury selection.
If Verna McClain is found guilty, she will join the ranks of three other killer nurses from Texas.
The Daily Caller cites an anonymous source who claims the Louisiana governor encouraged Perry to oust his long-time advisor.
After Friday Night Lights, an e-book published today by Byliner, focuses on Bissinger's relationship with star-crossed Odessa Permian star James “Boobie” Miles.
Celebrity gossip mags would pay up to $500,000 for pictures of Blue Ivy and Jessica Simpson's spawn.
Trader Joe's confirms plans to open a store in the almost-literal shadow of the flagship Whole Foods in Austin.
The rocker sticks to his not-so-metaphorical guns, saying the reaction to his comments about President Obama make him like "a black Jew at a Nazi-Klan rally."
Ron Paul and Cecile Richards were named among the most influential people in the world.
Private retailer Aggieland Outfitters recalled a handful of t-shirts printed with a map of the states that have SEC schools. The problem? North Carolina isn't part of the conference.
Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have thrown their support behind incumbent U.S. Representative Silvestre Reyes, who faces a primary challenge from El Paso City Council member Beto O'Rourke.
During a speech Monday, the governor laid out a five-point, budget-cutting pledge for no new taxes. But what was he really saying?
Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs is the subject of a new A&E Biography documentary set to air Monday night.
Former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz used the bulk of his time in Friday's Belo debate to slam Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and his policies.
The Austin grocery chain will open up a store in the Motor City's slowly revitalizing Midtown neighborhood next year.