A new book unearths a chapter of the state’s story when anti-intellectual fundamentalism was put to good ends.

Here's a look at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley's 2025 football schedule. Games will be aired on ESPN+.

Jane Towler was up late in a small cabin along the Guadalupe River as thunder boomed through a thrashing rain. It was 4 a.m.

The U.S. is having its worst year for measles spread in more than three decades, with a total of 1,288 cases nationally and ...

Search efforts continue for a fourth day as a girls' summer camp confirms 27 children and staff are dead, with 10 campers and ...

As search and rescue efforts continue in response to the “catastrophic” and deadly flooding of the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, many Texans are reminded of the state’s ...

Camp Mystic, on the banks of the Guadalupe River near Hunt, Texas, has been operated by generations of the same family since the 1930s.

Scott Joplin was an early musician who transformed much of the landscape of popular music in the early 1900s.  Though many ...

Perryville firefighters say an early morning fire damaged the cooking area of 1930 Texas Smokehouse on Jackson Street.

The identity of the “Woman of the High Plains” was revealed in 1979—but five years later, Nettie Featherston was forgotten ...

That 1999 falling out was the first of two major family feuds in Texas’ state-designated BBQ Capital. Twelve months after that phone call, KXAN’s feature-length documentary is set to premiere.

News Ronnie Dugger, 1930-2025 The Observer's crusading founding editor—a prolific author and agitator who helped animate the spirit of a true Texas liberalism—has died at 95.