A week after the Department of Justice announced fourteen charges against the Laredo representative, Cuellar returned to Congress to ignore reporters and jam out.
In a filing seeking to shut down an El Paso migrant shelter, the attorney general displays his ignorance of the religious beliefs held by a quarter of Texans.
Henry Cuellar was indicted on charges that he hid payments from Azerbaijan. The country has long waged an influence campaign in Texas.
Months after the company responsible missed a key deadline, the state environmental agency has yet to take further action to help Sweetwater officials get rid of two industrial dumps.
The Texas congressman said he and his wife, Imelda, are innocent, and that he is still seeking reelection this November.
Last year, an ideological battle nearly ripped apart the 127-year-old Texas State Historical Association. Now many of the state’s most prominent historians have broken away to start a rival organization.
Will driverless semis boost the economy and reduce the state’s traffic fatality rate—or cost jobs and lives?
Cane farmers in the Rio Grande Valley accuse Mexico of withholding their rightful share of water. But they've been growing one of Texas's thirstiest crops.
The attorney general has done everything in his power to avoid being in a courtroom. Then came the Trump trial.
A bizarre social media fabrication goes viral.
Cities across the state dramatically curbed water use over the last decade. Now, newcomers and first-time homeowners are causing it to spike again.
After her children were diagnosed with a rare metabolic disorder, Alice McConnell founded a company to find a treatment. Despite the many setbacks, she persists in her mission.
The “Texas Miracle” loses some of its magic as Oracle announces it’s moving its new HQ out of Austin and Tesla lays off nearly 2,700 workers.
Students protesting Israel’s actions in Gaza say they were demonstrating peacefully at the University of Texas at Austin when police tackled and arrested them.
Twenty-five prospective legislators have signed a pledge to block Democrats—who now hold 43 percent of the seats—from all influence in the lower chamber and neuter the next Speaker.
We’re already dealing with high prices, high mortgage rates, and high property taxes. Now the state faces a new crisis.
For weeks now, motorists have puzzled over a billboard advertising a senior citizen’s desire to find love in—and relocate to—tiny Sweetwater, Texas. Is it a sincere bid for companionship or an elaborate hoax? Texas Monthly investigates.
A controversial new law allows chaplains to replace school counselors. School districts—and campus ministries—across the state are largely unfazed.
Cases of the once rare disease are on the rise, crippling and killing infants. A new program hopes to prevent and treat the condition among those who are most vulnerable.
The bankrupt Infowars host is the latest colorful character to stake out a place in the desert outpost of Terlingua.
Assuming you own a pipeline, that is. The region is wrestling with a glut of the fuel.
Nicholas Suntzeff doubts the latest round of conspiracy theories about extraterrestrials. But he hasn’t given up on finding neighbors in the universe.
A new book by a UNT historian argues that American medicine overlooks how the ailments of many Black Americans are influenced by the diets of their African forebears.
An Indigenous man couldn’t understand the court proceedings when he was charged with a crime in Texas. He was sentenced anyway.
Carlos Alvarez, who died this week at 73, made a fortune bringing Corona to the U.S. and reviving Shiner Bock. Then, from his base in San Antonio, he cheerfully gave much of that fortune away.
The risk of the avian influenza sparking a pandemic remains low, but viruses evolve, and experts urge vigilance.
Everyone hates dealing with airport security. Ted Cruz has a solution that would benefit Ted Cruz and very few others.
The tough-talking former state senator loves cars, firefighters, and police. Critics say he’s taking the city backward.
The border town won’t let the immigration debate eclipse its eclipse plans.
The think tank convinced the state comptroller that it should be exempt from paying taxes on its lavish headquarters because it conducts “scholarly scientific research.”
Texas’s junior senator is courting a somewhat novel constituency for someone so active as a culture warrior.
An exclusive excerpt from ‘City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways.’
Texas’s junior senator and senior podcaster enjoys an unconventional sort of remuneration for his “unpaid” work.
After nine years of pursuing criminal fraud charges against the Texas attorney general, prosecutors now say that their case was weak.
Inspired in part by his son, Bryan Shaw is leading a team that's reenvisioning the college chemistry lab.
The area west of Austin and San Antonio will be one of the most popular destinations in America for witnessing the historic phenomenon. Given its rural nature, it also could face the most challenges.
Party officials in several counties have adopted resolutions against the grocery store magnate for a litany of alleged offenses against the state Republican platform.
As the high-profile capital murder case is appealed in the courts, one woman who sentenced Reed to death tells all about the trial.
Matt Rinaldi has led the state Republican Party far to the right. His successor is likely to keep driving in that direction.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments about whether to allow back into effect a law allowing state and local authorities to deport migrants.
The ruling allows Texas to start enforcing Senate Bill 4 while a lawsuit over its constitutionality remains pending before a federal appeals court.
A brief and highly selective look at what just happened, from a pair of primates comforting a woman to a quintet of musicians getting pranked.
Glenn Rogers ran afoul of Governor Greg Abbott and billionaire oilmen Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks. It cost him his job.
After the active duty airman self-immolated as an act of protest against the violence in Gaza, friends of Bushnell from the San Antonio church he attended remember someone who “loved hard and loved quickly.”
Dallas Love Field has been transformed into an aviation battleground again, as American and Southwest lobby the Federal Aviation Administration to change the rules that allowed the newcomer to take off.
The aviation battle underway at Love Field has echoes of the pivotal fight over the launch of Legend Airlines.
In a post-election interview, Travis Clardy calls his defeat a slap in the face for rural districts with few alternatives to public schools.
A Houston-area priest is part of a group of religious leaders and media figures who draw followers interested in conspiracy theories and authoritarian government.
U.S. policy is designed to force those entering Texas to cross at dangerous choke points. Those who don't make it are often never identified.
The GOP primary has yanked the lower chamber, once again, to the right—a huge victory for Greg Abbott and lieutenant governor Dan Patrick.
