News & Politics
March 20, 2019
A Third Accuser in Mineola Child Sex Abuse Case Recants
Carly Mayo, eighteen, is now back in Tyler and living with her mom as she reckons with her past.
News
Arts & Entertainment
March 9, 2019
What We Learned from Brené Brown at SXSW
The kickoff keynote from the massively popular Houston author ended with a Townes Van Zandt singalong.
News & Politics
March 6, 2019
As Texas Privatizes Child Protective Services, Will the Horror Stories Go Unheard?
Critics of the forthcoming transformation of the state’s child welfare system worry about the new model’s lack of transparency. Legislators are running out of time to introduce greater safeguards.
Politics & Policy
March 4, 2019
Texas Court Again Rules Against Government Transparency
It's the latest in a string of legal rulings that have chipped away at the Lone Star State’s once-heralded open records laws.
Border & Immigration
March 1, 2019
Why Are Separated Families Told They Must Use a Tiny Georgia Travel Agency to Reunite?
No one can explain why. Not even Southwest Key, the nonprofit shelter that keeps telling refugees they have no other choice.
News & Politics
February 25, 2019
Criminal Charges Against Schlitterbahn Officials Have Been Dropped
Because the charges were dismissed pretrial, prosecutors have the right to refile a criminal complaint.
News & Politics
February 20, 2019
The Houston Transgender News and Activism Blog TransGriot Keeps Getting Suspended by Google
Monica Roberts, the author of the long-running blog, was told only that the service suspended her platform in error—before it did so again.
The Stand Up Desk
February 20, 2019
A Letter to Our Readers
Beginning today, we’re asking those who read our work online to do what our print subscribers have done for 46 years: subscribe to Texas Monthly.
News & Politics
February 14, 2019
Texans Sure Like to Pack Guns in Their Carry-On Bags
The TSA would like to remind you not to bring your firearms through the security checkpoint.
Travel & Outdoors
January 25, 2019
Balmorhea State Park Will Reopen, Thanks to $2 Million in Donations
TPWD's fundraising from Apache Corporation and hundreds of Texans will support repairs at the park.
Politics & Policy
January 25, 2019
Why Aren’t Texas Politicians Standing Up for Texas Landowners?
That viral video of a Colorado senator berating Ted Cruz makes one wonder if there’s a double standard at work.
News & Politics
January 10, 2019
From Affordable Housing to Border Patrol, Here’s How the Government Shutdown is Affecting Texans
From affordable housing to Border Patrol, the shutdown is causing problems all over the state.
News & Politics
January 4, 2019
How Herb Kelleher Made the World a Whole Lot Smaller
The Southwest Airlines cofounder was a pioneering entrepreneur who changed the way we travel. He was also a world-class wit, a bon vivant, and a not-so-closet intellectual.
News & Politics
January 3, 2019
Everything We Know About the Shooting of Jazmine Barnes
Police say the seven-year-old was fatally shot on a feeder road near a Harris County Walmart. Two suspects are in custody.
News & Politics
October 23, 2018
What You Need to Know About Austin’s Water Shortage
Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink.
True Crime
September 21, 2018
The Cartel Next Door
How prosecutors tied a brazen murder in an upscale Dallas suburb to one of Mexico’s most violent criminal organizations.
News & Politics
September 5, 2018
Man Arrested After Repeatedly Crashing Truck Into Dallas TV News Station Building
The man reportedly exited the vehicle and began ranting.
News & Politics
September 1, 2018
DPS Releases Video of Takedown of Austin Bomber
The two-minute video taken from a DPS helicopter shows the last minutes of Mark Conditt's life.
The Culture
August 27, 2018
The Man Helping Solve Houston’s Homelessness Problem
Inspired by his relationship with his own brother, Kenneth DeVon's life mission is to help Houston's homeless population.
News & Politics
August 24, 2018
Sand Is Choking Lake LBJ, But a Battle Looms Over Its Removal
Developers are pitted against landowners over a solution that keeps the peace and preserves the lake.
News & Politics
August 24, 2018
Texan Sentenced to Five Years for NSA Leaks on Russian Hacking
Kingsville native Reality Winner will serve the longest sentence so far under the Espionage Act.
News & Politics
August 24, 2018
Harris County May Have Violated Federal Election Law, Expert Says
The National Voter Registration Act prohibits removing ineligible voters from voter rolls within 90 days of a federal election. That’s just what the Harris County registrar tried to do.
News & Politics
August 23, 2018
The Utterly Heartbreaking and Horrifying Hot-Car Death of Baby Fern Thedford
Texas leads the country in hot-car deaths of children. Was Michael Thedford a horrible father, or did he make a mistake any parent could make?
News
August 15, 2018
A Hit-and-Run Killed an Immigrant Father of Five in Austin
He worked 80-hour weeks to send money home to his family. The driver who ran him over had been in and out of trouble for years.
The National Podcast of Texas
July 13, 2018
Ed Lavandera: CNN’s Texas-Based National Correspondent on the Situation at the Border
On this week's National Podcast of Texas, Andy Langer also speaks with singer-songwriter Radney Foster on his newly recorded “prayer for the border.”
Border & Immigration
July 13, 2018
Are Detained Immigrants Being Asked to Choose Between Asylum and Reunification With Their Children?
Austin immigration attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch says the system is seemingly designed to use speedy family reunification to pressure parents into deportation.
News & Politics
June 4, 2018
Is Andre Thomas Too Crazy to Be Executed?
The case of a man who slaughtered his family, then gouged out his eyes, will be reviewed Tuesday by an appellate court panel in New Orleans.
BBQ
May 24, 2018
The BBQ News Roundup: BBQ Roadtrips and a Mysterious Pit Thief in Houston
Plus: barbecue summer camp, protest through barbecue, possible barbecue cannibalism, and much, much more.
True Crime
May 19, 2018
Jeff Pike, Texas’s Own Tony Soprano
Earlier this spring, Jeff Pike, the head of the infamous Texas-based Bandidos motorcycle club, went on trial in federal court for racketeering. Prosecutors called him a ruthless killer, the man behind one of the deadliest biker shoot-outs in American history, at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco. Pike, however, said
News & Politics
May 3, 2018
White Supremacist Gang Members’ ‘Vast Criminal Conspiracy’ Detailed
Dozens of gang members face charges ranging from trafficking methamphetamines to kidnapping.
True Crime
December 14, 2017
For Lagordiloca, Live-Streaming Crime Scenes Is Just a Night’s Work
Priscilla Villarreal doesn’t work for the local news in Laredo—but for her 80,000 Facebook followers, that doesn’t matter.
The Daily Post
February 15, 2017
A White Supremacist Group Aims To Recruit On College Campuses
The University of Texas at Austin was their latest target.
Meanwhile, in Texas
August 24, 2016
Meanwhile, in Texas . . .
Some crazy stuff went down last month. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
News & Politics
May 16, 2016
The Reckoning
Fifty years ago, when Claire Wilson was eighteen, she was critically wounded during the 1966 UT Tower shooting. How does the path of a bullet change a life?
Meanwhile, in Texas
October 21, 2015
Meanwhile, in Texas . . .
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
Meanwhile, in Texas
September 17, 2015
Meanwhile, in Texas . . .
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
The Daily Post
June 19, 2015
Pharr Is the Best Small City in the Country for Working Women
The small town in the Rio Grande Valley ranked first in the country on NerdWallet’s list of best cities for women in the workforce.
The Culture
January 9, 2015
Death and Twitter
In Reynosa, a brave and conflicted group of social media users goes where journalists fear to tread.
True Crime
October 21, 2014
A Shooting on Spring Grove Avenue
Olivia Lord told Dallas police officers that her boyfriend put a gun to his head after a drunken argument. Detective Dwayne Thompson couldn’t see how the evidence—or motive—made any sense. How did Michael Burnside die on May 9, 2010?
The Daily Post
August 13, 2014
Video of a Homeless Austin Man Went Viral Because It Shows How Crappy Everybody Treats Homeless People
Apparently a trip to Goodwill to buy a summer blazer is all it takes to get treated like a human being.
The Daily Post
April 3, 2014
Here’s Everything We Know At This Point About The Shooting At Fort Hood
The last news anyone wanted about the Army post at Fort Hood was another mass shooting. Here's what we know right now.
News & Politics
November 10, 2013
Foster Mother Whose Children Testified in the “Mineola Swingers Club” Case Now Accused of Abuse
Eight years ago Margie Cantrell pushed law enforcement to investigate allegations of abuse by a group of adults in Mineola. Seven people were convicted of child sexual abuse, and the scandal rocked East Texas. Now, two of those same children are alleging Cantrell physically abused them.
News & Politics
January 21, 2013
Teen Forced to Make Public Apology After Cutting a Southwest Flight Line
A line-jumping Westlake teenager learned a very public lesson in courtesy on a Southwest flight.
News & Politics
January 21, 2013
Southwest Cracks Down on Cleavage
A naturally large-chested woman in a sundress didn't feel the "LUV" from Southwest when a gate agent dubbed her cleavage-revealing outfit "inappropriate."
News & Politics
January 21, 2013
Judge Wanted to Posthumously Exonerate Cameron Todd Willingham
Former state district judge Charlie Baird shares the 18-page exoneration order that he never got to issue with The Huffington Post.
True Crime
January 1, 2013
The Mystery of Lightning Medicine Cloud
When a rare white buffalo was born in North Texas, thousands came to celebrate the new age he heralded. A year later the animal was dead.
May 23, 2012
Juárez Back on the Map. Literally.
Juárez, which had been scrubbed from the free tourist maps distributed in El Paso, will be included on the 2013 set of maps put out by the El Paso Business Region Chamber of Commerce.
News & Politics
April 19, 2012
Cockfight Becomes Gunfight in the Valley
Three dead and eight injured as masked gunmen ambush cockfight at a ranch northeast of Edinburg.
Business
December 2, 2011
Drop in Juárez Murder Rate Is Bad for Funeral Business
The El Paso Times reported that as Juárez’s murder rate drops, funeral homes suffer, a story that elicited horrified reactions from the community.
True Crime
January 1, 2011
Rich Man, Poor Man
The tragic culture clash that led to the murder of a governor’s son.