Brazoria County district clerk Rhonda Barchak sorted jurors by race and geography. Her attorney says the method was harmless, but the Texas Rangers are investigating.
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Who can be sued under Senate Bill 8? What is the “shadow docket”? When will the Supreme Court rule on the merits of the law?
The island's latest storm has no season.
The UT historian and newly minted MacArthur fellow wants justice for victims and their descendants.
Texas Monthly spoke with experts about how Tejanos are influencing everything in the state, from cuisine to pop culture to entrepreneurship.
As home prices skyrocket in Texas, buyers will try anything to stand out—and neuroscience shows these letters work. But housing experts say the implications are troubling.
Tesla has filed to become a Texas power retailer in a move that could shake up an already fast-changing market.
The sheriff blames his death on a big cat—but animal experts aren’t buying that theory.
In Rockport, a celebrated artist is planning to install sculptures depicting the first contact between European explorers and the Karankawa. Is it a representation of a key moment in the area’s history, or a glorification of colonialism?
Acclaimed climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe on reasons for alarm—and hope.
Bell County struggles with misinformation and conspiracy theories as the deadly Delta variant spreads like wildfire.
Local officials in South Texas are scrambling to figure out what the governor is building in their communities.
Inside the state’s biggest hospitals, doctors say a surge of unvaccinated COVID patients is almost too bewildering to believe.
Residents of the small West Texas town welcomed a surge of space enthusiasts and media, as billionaire Jeff Bezos traveled 100 kilometers above the surface of Earth.
As El Paso tries to avoid a new COVID-19 wave, most Juárez residents can't travel into the States for the jab.
Many owners blame staff shortages on laziness and government handouts. Employees reply that their bosses should behave like rational capitalists and boost wages and working conditions.
Out of options in Austin, House Democrats fly to Washington, D.C., where they plan to press Congress to pass federal legislation protecting ballot access.
The next party leader could continue to wage war on errant Republican elected officials or oversee a détente.
A surge in post-pandemic revelry and lingering aftershocks from the February freeze have made the ubiquitous bar snack a pricey delicacy.
The meteorologist’s no-nonsense website Space City Weather has established a cult following in flood-prone, hurricane-battered Houston.
Earlier this month, a federal board removed the word “Negro” from sixteen locations in Texas, but the state map is still rife with slurs.
If you’re trying to buy a home, then you’re probably a grown-up. You deserve a grown-up city—the city of Houston.
The cascading effects of COVID-19—including a job-seekers’ economy and recruitment delays—are mostly to blame.
Governor Greg Abbott has sent a thousand state cops into Texas border communities to combat smuggling. But many locals complain that they are more of a nuisance than an effective crime-fighting force.
The Rice University president recently announced his retirement after eighteen years of advances and controversies.
Along the border, forensic experts such as Corinne Stern have dealt with a surge in migrant deaths during the Biden administration.
After weeks of debating how to best combat the voting-restriction legislation, Democrats find a rare, though likely temporary, victory.
Tony Buzbee, who is representing the plaintiffs, and Rusty Hardin, who is defending the Texans quarterback, are trying to navigate deftly in the #MeToo era.
A 2018 note from a Canadian teen washed up on a Port Aransas beach this month, reminding us of other writings found on Texas shores.
Famed portrait photographer Dan Winters shifted his focus to a new character, the Permian Basin, as the storied region weathered a historic oil bust.
And 18 months after the police, district attorney, and trial judge all declared the Houston man innocent.
With its WarnerMedia announcement, the Dallas-based telecom tacitly admits its latest bold acquisition—by a Texas company built on them—was a mistake.
Imagine all the westerns filmmaker Taylor Sheridan could shoot on 266,000 acres of property.
This week the magazine earned five National Magazine Award nominations and won nine City and Regional Magazine Awards.
He challenged a reporter to perform the calisthenics, then decided to do them himself.
The Harris County sheriff has been overshadowed by more-vocal Houston officials, but he’s earned a reputation as an effective reformer.
Seventeen years after Floyd’s arrest by a notorious Houston cop, his family is seeking a pardon.
As vaccination rollout in their country has been slow, wealthy Mexicans have spent thousands on expensive trips abroad to get inoculated.
The state’s top elected official used to have limited sway. But Abbott has steadily seized authority from the Legislature and governing boards—a process accelerated by the pandemic.
Plus, a man pretends to be conducting a CIA investigation at a Longview children's museum.
In Houston’s Third Ward, where some residents’ homes were extensively damaged, a fight for repairs has reached a breaking point.
Many industries bear a portion of the blame for the failure of Texas’s electric grid. But one seems to be escaping strict requirements to better prepare for future storms.
You ain’t a cowboy till your stunt double’s been bucked off.
It’s hard to grasp just how massive the Ever Given is. Fortunately, scale is something our state does well.
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The beloved supermarket chain, which has carefully guarded its intentions in North Texas, dropped a bombshell on Friday.
Governor Greg Abbott has identified passing “election integrity” bills as one of his priorities for this legislative session, but the man in charge of ushering such legislation through the Texas House seems not up to the task.
Car clubs have gathered for decades at “Chicano Park” in the East Cesar Chavez neighborhood. But residents of a new luxury apartment building have started calling the police to stop them.
The lieutenant governor has long responded to crises with more talk than legislation. But is something different this time as he deals with the aftermath of the blackout?