A power struggle in the suburban enclave of Castle Hills got so bad that the Supreme Court is being asked to clarify the ...

From Joe Biden to Colin Allred, election-season Dems take too lightly an issue at the heart of our national experiment: ...

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Jeff Danziger, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning, drew for the Observer in the late ’70s, after ...

A UT professor and expert on freedom of expression weighs in on the controversial arrests of 57 individuals, including a ...

As a rural hospital in Crockett struggles with the cost of indigent and other unpaid care, a torn community weighs how to ...

Some hunting ranches in Texas routinely offer hunts of endangered or threatened exotic species. This should not be allowed.

Threats to deploy U.S. troops to Mexico ignore an appalling reality that has already been a disaster for both nations.

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But giving up or giving away Texas state property is nothing new for the state’s park commissioners. Over the last 25 years, ...

A well-known warrior in the #ChurchToo movement reveals in a new book how she escaped from an abusive Texas home and an abusive Southern Baptist church.

New plaintiffs have expanded a 2023 lawsuit against TDCJ, accusing the agency of “cooking [prisoners] to death." ...