Val Verde County’s Conservative Democratic Sheriff on Misinformation, Immigration "Before people start commenting on the border, come visit the bord ...

Bitcoin mining afflicts locals with noise pollution, threatens water supplies, and receives generous public backing.

Legislation to allow some forms of drug checking has reached the same Senate committee where a similar bill died last session ...

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Public officials at all levels are propping up a Texas Bitcoin mining boom that’s threatening water and energy systems while afflicting locals with noise pollution.

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New play tells a poetic version of the long road to recovery of Houston’s first Black prima ballerina.

Three months into a second Trump administration, nearly a decade into the Trump era, more than a decade into the Greg Abbott era, and 22 harrowingly long years into the GOP’s unilateral control ...

Edric Wilson spent 18 years awaiting a murder trial that would never come. From September 2006 until his release earlier this year, he split his time between the Harris County Jail and state ...

Texas Innocence Network founder David Dow’s first foray into fiction explores the trauma of a wrongful conviction.