Rarely are special-interest bills in the Texas Lege quite so special as in Brooks Landgraf’s bill targeting the tiny town of Volente.
Amid a debate over competing property tax–relief plans, the lieutenant governor isn’t holding back. But is “California Dade” a good insult?
In the ongoing push to preempt progressive policies at the local level, the GOP-controlled Legislature could undo protections against predatory payday lending.
The governor has promoted “school choice” at seven religious academies around the state. Why there?
I stopped by for a hike on the park’s final day. Its 1,420 acres are set to become luxury homes.
Scientists are using GPS collars to gather surprising data—including on one bear that walked 35 miles to dumpster dive.
In an address that resembled a campaign ad, the governor issued seven priorities for the Legislature, including a push for “school choice.”
Internal documents offer new insights into an unprecedented ploy in Wimberley to divert public-education dollars to private schools.
The first rule of catching a carp: don’t expect to catch a carp.
Three good spots around the state to fly-fish for Cyprinus carpio.
The ways of the Texas Legislature are confoundingly weird. Here’s a guide to the madness.
What happens when hundreds of thousands of people go to the same place looking for a little quiet time? One of our two national parks is finding out.
Proposed regulations have prompted an intense backlash from hunters, trappers, and landowners.
Representative Jared Patterson is following a long legislative tradition of trying to troll Austin.
It's a big win for a city that often feels neglected by Austin and Washington, D.C.
Author S. C. Gwynne calls his 2009 profile of the pirate-obsessed former Texas Tech coach part of the “golden era” of his journalism career.
Only a handful of the state’s 219 legislative and congressional races were competitive. That was by design.
DPS director Steve McCraw could legally release mountains of evidence tomorrow. Instead, he is hiding behind a veil of secrecy.
Political operatives descended on the Hill Country town of Wimberley with a scheme to send taxpayer dollars to private schools. Now they’re shopping the same blueprint elsewhere.
The lieutenant governor’s rural bus tour looks more like an extended vacation than a reelection bid.
It’s become a Texas tradition to hold brief gubernatorial debates during high school football prime time.
In 1982, Dick J. Reavis chronicled the first government-led lethal injection in world history—and the last moments of Charlie Brooks's life.
Plans were underway to revive tourism at Fort Clark Springs in southwest Texas. But then, in a scenario increasingly common across the state, the water stopped flowing.
Across the state, Texans are experiencing record-high temperatures, but we might be recalling this summer fondly someday.
Homeowners in hot housing markets got a nasty surprise when their appraisals arrived this spring. Here’s what happened when some of them tried to get reductions.
How to get the adventure and scenery without having to spend days in your kayak or canoe.
My family’s shack on an island in the world’s largest hypersaline lagoon has brought us closer to the fishing—and to one another.
Texas authorities bungled the facts about the law enforcement response at Robb Elementary School. Then they went silent.
Texas has wild weather. We need a lexicon to match.
Defenders of limitless guns are out of ideas but full of excuses.
In the Republican runoff for attorney general, incumbent Ken Paxton—not to mention Donald Trump—got his wish.
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No, sorry, we can't blame the Californians. Here's more than you ever wanted to know about your home’s skyrocketing appraisal.
Two-fifths of Texas Republicans say they would never vote for a Bush.
Over several years, Richard West spent two months in seven Texas locales. His reporting eventually won the National Magazine Award.
The seventh-generation Texan is roaming the state in her van, registering voters—and digging into her family's history in the long struggle for voting rights.
After two years of hell, Texas teachers are burned-out, angry, tired—and sounding the alarm about public education.
The Russian-funded network may have folded, but Texas native Rachel Blevins is still propagandizing for Putin.
The new maps have done away with nearly every competitive district, meaning most races will be decided next week or in the May runoffs.
In Texas's Republican primaries, the stop-the-steal message doesn’t seem to be catching fire.
Jeb’s son is running for his political life in the Texas attorney general’s race. But Donald Trump may get the last laugh.
Dan McQueen, best known for serving as Corpus Christi mayor for just 37 days, now wants to fly his personal autonomous aerial vehicle to D.C.
Some idiots carved their names on prehistoric petroglyphs in Big Bend—and it's part of a disturbing spike in vandalism.
