“The Worst It’s Been”: RNs in the Largest Nurse Strike in Texas History Describe Their Workplace
Austin nurses walked out of Ascension Seton Medical Center to protest staffing and retention issues, saying their patients are not safe.
Austin nurses walked out of Ascension Seton Medical Center to protest staffing and retention issues, saying their patients are not safe.
Texans have never been afraid of summer temperatures. This year’s record-breaking heat wave should make us think twice.
Remembering John Goodenough, who was well into his fifties when he developed a battery that changed the world.
The Texas Country Jamboree doesn't exist, and Garth Brooks wasn't booed off its stage. That didn't deter Greg Abbott.
The Texas Education Agency just took over the state’s largest school system. Parents and teachers are furious. But some city leaders insist that, after decades of poor performance by HISD, disruption is necessary.
Two high-profile workplace complaints made headlines at the Capitol this year, but insiders say others against Houston representative Shawn Thierry have been ignored.
As celebrity lawyers feud in the press, Republican groups have launched an influence campaign in the Texas Senate.
That left the real culprit free to prey on others, including one victim who was ignored for two decades.
The Brackeens sued after their initial petition to adopt a Navajo and Cherokee boy was denied. A 7–2 Supreme Court ruling represents a major win for tribal sovereignty.
The treasured banner was discovered in a Texas gun store, sparking questions about the repatriation of artifacts.
Can medical science truly explain the mystical, mysterious experience triggered by a simple malfunction in my inner ear?
Thousands of Mexicans routinely cross into Texas to sell their vital bodily fluids for cash. Is that arrangement symbiotic—or exploitative?
Our scorecard of the Eighty-eighth Texas Legislature’s noisy scoundrels and quiet heroes.
Weeks after the Biden Administration ended the Trump-Imposed Title 42 regulations, the border near El Paso remains unexpectedly quiet.
The inventor of the world’s first cosmetic penile implant says a group of Houston doctors is trying to steal his ideas. Inside the multimillion-dollar feud.
It’s rare to see a conservative American politician use language such as “horrific and wrong” and “human rights abuse” to describe a law that targets gay people.
The conservative, gun-toting superintendent of Fort Davis Independent School District is fed up: “I’m not patient enough to spend time with assholes in Austin, and I’m not rich enough to buy any votes.”
Texas Republicans have been in the midst of a cold war with one another for much of the 2023 session. The impeachment vote simply caused it to heat up.
Despite a judge’s ruling that her opponent rightfully won the election, Daisy Campos Rodriguez stubbornly clings to her office.
The state’s top attorney will be suspended from duties, pending a trial in the Texas Senate.
The Texas House has voted to impeach the attorney general. After nearly eight years under indictment—during which he won two elections—why now?
After Elon Musk killed their Twitter app, two software developers in the North Texas suburbs are trying to shape the future of social media.
The proposed construction project is intended to alleviate future traffic problems, but at what cost?
Hypnosis played a critical role in the real-life case depicted in Max’s ‘Love & Death.’ But was it good science? Here’s what the experts say.
The attorney general, under indictment since 2015, now faces potential impeachment from the Texas House.
Phelan’s office called Paxton’s late-Tuesday statement a ploy and “a last-ditch effort to save face.”
John Nova Lomax, a former senior editor at Texas Monthly who died Monday, was a beautiful storyteller who struggled with his own story.
Abortion restrictions running in conflict with training requirements are pushing lifelong Texans to leave the state—maybe for good.
The 2022 census update, released late last week, indicates growth in Austin and Fort Worth—as well as the Texas suburbs—isn’t slowing down.
Depositions in a recent lawsuit reveal that state rep Tom Craddick, his wife and son, and his daughter, Christi, who leads Texas’s oil and gas regulating agency, profit from industry deals not available to just anyone.
Ted Cruz wants the Beer Institute, the industry’s self-regulatory body, to investigate whether Bud Light broke the law by reaching out to a transgender influencer.
Dallas journalist Roxanna Asgarian’s new book, ‘We Were Once a Family,’ examines a murder-suicide that made national news—and finds that the story behind the story is even worse than we thought.
The longest-tenured governor of Texas, who is famously great with groups of three, aims for a failed campaign hat trick.
Rarely are special-interest bills in the Texas Lege quite so special as in Brooks Landgraf’s bill targeting the tiny town of Volente.
For the developer of a complex of multimillion-dollar hilltop homes, today’s slowing market spurred a marketing innovation. Enter the holodeck.
An unusual number of lawmakers have crossed the aisle to support Republican bills this year. Party operatives are furious.
Legal sports gambling in the state still faces a long and complicated path that would require a constitutional amendment.
The gun bills most likely to pass aren’t restrictions but those that further protect firearm ownership.
These benefits could be ours, if the Lege would just help insure a million more Texans.
Inside the arguments, lawsuit, and angry outbursts that are dividing a key authority on historical matters.
Hint: if one of them were Baker Mayfield, he could pass a football to the folks on either side of him.
Research shows having doulas involved in childbirth could improve health outcomes—and serve to close the racial gaps in care.
After the latest bloodbaths in Allen and Cleveland, the governor turned to a familiar playbook of deflection.
What’s behind the Legislature’s relentless campaign against wind and solar power, which are saving Texans billions?
Police have detained the driver but are still investigating whether the crash was intentional or accidental.
One year ago, before the school shooting in Uvalde, Kimberly Mata-Rubio had never been on a plane or given a public speech or scolded a U.S. senator right there in his office. A year in the life of a grieving mother.
Progressive faith leaders and women’s health advocates are adopting the messaging to push for a 12-month Medicaid extension for postpartum care.
Environmentalists have filed a suit looking to block Elon Musk’s company from doing what state leaders invited him to do at Boca Chica.
The former Baylor linebacker and NFL player has won the last three elections in his Dallas congressional district.
What began as a baseless theory has turned into a social media frenzy, with the power to frighten the public and hamper police investigations.