byKatherine Corley
A renewed interest in board games has spawned an increase in amateur board game developers, particularly in Lone Star hotspots Dallas and Austin.
byMorgan Kilgo
The debate over the proper role of standard tests in evaluating student performance returns to the Capitol.
bySahar Chmais
Some Texans say federal opioid-prescribing guidelines are limiting chronic pain patients’ access to much needed medicine.
byClaire Allbright
Unlike most states, the Texas Legislature only meets every other year.
byKayla Meyertons
With the start of the 2019 mosquito season upon us, state public health officials plan to proceed as usual — expecting the worst.
byKate Groetzinger
A fight over what to do with the civic center in Staples has riled up residents.
byHayli Rudolph
David Beebe, the host of the weekly Night Train Express on public-radio KRTS, keeps Motown sound alive in West Texas.
byLauren DeFilippo
Gabbi Huerte, 17, has Down Syndrome. The annual Miss Sweetheart Special Needs Pageant gave her a moment to remember.
After a lifetime in stock car racing, Mary Ann Naumann is trying to revive the sport at a dirt track in Paige.
A flood of tourists drawn by the TV stars has triggered a development wave.
byChristopher De Los Santos
Veterans say they are turning to new organizations to deal with traumatic experiences.
Since the Austin-Travis County Sobering Center opened in August, more then 500 intoxicated people have been treated at the center.
byStephen Cabler
The mussel has inflicted billions of dollars in damages since it was introduced in the Great Lakes in 1988.
byVicky Camarillo
Few things capture the irony of Lufkin’s resurgence better than the Lufkin Industries Christmas display.
byChristoper De Los Santos
The Lower Colorado River Authority wants to pump 25,000 acre-feet annually from the Carrizo-Wilcox aquifer.
byMichael MInasi
In a world of seemingly ubiquitous chain stores and expanding online shopping, Old Highway 90 in San Antonio has remained home to mom-and-pop businesses.
byShepard Price
The founder of a Buddhist temple in Austin has said things condoning the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people in Myanmar.
byBrandon Mulder
The Bastrop cemetery is another instance of black grave sites being unearthed across the state as developers bulldoze land along the edges of expanding cities.
byAlejandra Gavilanes and Sam Bellessa
UT students Alejandra Gavilanes and Sam Bellessa set out to discover one of Central Texas’ most popular events and along the way meet the king and his royal subjects at the Texas Renaissance Festival.
byAlexia Puente
A a girl in Michigan, Kate Biberdorf discovered joy and beauty in science. She brings that sense of wonder — and plenty of pyrotechnics — to her students at the University of Texas.
