What Can Public Transit Deserts Learn From Paris, Texas?
The East Texas town has maintained a reliable bus route since 2016, providing a model for rural areas with limited transportation.
The East Texas town has maintained a reliable bus route since 2016, providing a model for rural areas with limited transportation.
Federal help could keep facilities open in several small towns, but they'll be forced to cut back to offering only emergency care.
Sterry Butcher on the path that led her to move to Marfa and find God “in the details” while writing about rural Texas.
Texas leads the U.S. in maternity ward closures, and nowhere is this more of an issue than in the western part of the state.
On a remote ranch south of Alpine, Bonnie and Dick Cain have carved out their ideal lifestyle, without electricity, refrigeration, or running water.
A New Braunfels man isn’t quite sure that he has a firm grasp on this fundamental aspect of Texas rural life.
The retailer sits 200 yards from Deaf Smith County’s largest hospital. Local officials and public health experts worry that the store isn’t enforcing safety precautions.
The rural area lost both its hospitals. Can a telehealth station in Cameron fill the urgent-care gap?
The multimedia oral history project features the stories of queer people, many of them Texans, who live outside cities.
A new study suggests that, even in communities with few confirmed cases, the coronavirus could be spreading much more quickly than people realize.
A Houston man visits Austin and is mildly flummoxed by RM 2222.
The album honors black culture in Houston, but also looks beyond it to the traditions of rural Texas.
A recent poll of Texas voters shows opinions about President Trump’s wall depend on where in the state you live.
As the sole studio photographer in Granger from 1924 to 1955, John Trlica recorded on film most of the important occasions—public and private—in the Central Texas farming community. Because Trlica kept meticulous records and saved every negative, his shop became the repository for an intensely documented history of a small
Hiking in a country setting? Great, but not in my back yard, say rural citizens.
Reflections and recollections of life among the shadows of the Piney Woods.
The last best way to see the real Texas.
Texas cities are full of people who grew up in the country—and want everybody they meet to know it.
You can still find it in these great small towns.
Behind the pine curtain of deep East Texas is a world trapped in the past and hidden from the future: lush woods, poor whites, the descendants of slaves, and an aristocracy still breathing the rarefied air of the Old South.