In Amarillo, the Nation’s Helium Stockpile Goes on Sale
An auction this week will privatize the federal supply of the strategically important gas.
An auction this week will privatize the federal supply of the strategically important gas.
Luke Coffee, a Dallas-based actor and filmmaker, is trying to frame himself as a victim of excessive force.
U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland said the response to the massacre cost lives.
Medicaid covers half of all births in Texas.
The Longhorns and the Cowboys got thumped after receiving Cruz’s endorsement. Some say the junior senator is to blame.
Nine years ago, U.S. district judge Janis Jack ordered the state to fix its foster care system. Activists say kids are still suffering.
Last year, one in every ten Harris County renters faced losing their home. A new program aims to connect tenants with resources.
Politicians have labeled the battle over Ken Paxton’s impeachment as one between centrists and the far right. It’s not, according to our analysis of legislators’ voting records.
2023 was a busy, chaotic year in our state—with more happening than Texas Monthly alone could cover. Sixteen staffers selected their favorite stories from other outlets.
They just don’t apply, according to a new report that says many uninsured residents aren’t taking advantage of Affordable Care Act plans.
A self-described lifelong Republican voter, Sheila Foster accuses the governor of playing politics over the murder of her son, Garrett, at a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020.
With $2.5 million in federal grants, Amtrak and TxDOT will study adding passenger rail in Texas.
Having survived one big legal fight, the attorney general is eagerly picking new ones with Media Matters for America, Pfizer, the U.S. State Department, and a Texan with a nonviable pregnancy.
A weak slate of statewide Dems, a feeding frenzy among Republicans for open House seats, and some Abbott-versus-Paxton showdowns are all on the menu.
Glenn Beck went looking for proof that the Liberty County community is a cartel-controlled nightmare. He was surprised by what he found.
An agency spokesperson claimed that the move had nothing to do with politics. Internal emails show otherwise.
When Jena Ehlinger’s son Jake died of fentanyl poisoning, she was driven to find some meaning in her pain.
The impeachment trial of Ken Paxton delivered a steady stream of tantalizing entertainment. But the most consequential moments played out when few were watching.
One group that’s surprisingly bullish on Democrats’ chances to win a statewide race in the near future: Republican operatives.
Echoing a statewide trend, the team aims to prevent the tragedies that often result when armed police answer calls involving psychological emergencies.
If Occidental Petroleum acquires CrownRock, the right-wing Midland oilman could become an even bigger power broker—in Texas and perhaps nationally.
The think tank, founded by a conservative billionaire who supports Greg Abbott, ranks Texas 39 places behind California.
Traditionally, the capitol building has housed a gigantic tree. This year's is much more meager.
This week, the women-focused dating app joined dozens of other Texas companies that say ambiguity around life-saving medical care is bad for business.
Some seem tired of working in a place where so little gets done.
Long thought of as a presidential contender, the Texas governor has endorsed the former president—and supplicated for his favor.
A suspicious man brandished a shotgun in an Austin park—then in New York. The responses of the two police departments were markedly different.
He lived out his last years in Mexico as a real estate agent, dreaming of returning home to Texas with his husband.
A 1991 mass shooting in Killeen inspired legislation that has made Texas America’s most gun-friendly state.
The Other Ones Foundation, led by Chris Baker, transformed a state-run encampment site for Austinites experiencing homelessness into a welcoming refuge.
After Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel, a crowd gathered in the Alamo City for an evangelical event that quickly turned into a call to arms.
The first stop of Ken Paxton’s revenge tour was in a North Texas House district, where his preferred candidate, Brent Money, reached a runoff.
State leaders are bullish on new atom-splitting technologies, even as those same officials hobble wind and solar projects.
Alligator snapping turtle populations in Texas were dwindling. One family of smugglers had been poaching them from the state for years.
For a long time, Texas Republican chairman Matt Rinaldi couldn’t win elections. Now he wants to decide them—by exacting revenge on opponents within his party.
After Hurricane Katrina, Darresha George moved her family to Texas. When school officials suspended her son for refusing to cut his hair, it unleashed a storm that shows no signs of easing.
The wealthy trial lawyer just helped acquit Attorney General Ken Paxton. Now he wants to fix potholes and broken water lines.
Residents of El Paso and Sunland Park, New Mexico, agree illegal immigration is a problem, but the Texas governor’s newest effort is little more than a PR stunt.
The city's University Medical Center is among the trauma centers dealing with many more migrants severely hurt in falls from the thirty-foot fence.
In the latest showdown over immigration restrictions, Texas representatives got into a heated confrontation on the floor.
Republicans need a win after a summer of infighting. But party leaders are ignoring several potential consequences in moving hastily on this issue.
The Houston exurb offers cheap land to hardworking families. But some in the GOP see the benefit in demonizing the migrants who’ve moved there.
When I wrote my YA novel, I hoped to inspire teens to figure out their beliefs around complicated political questions. But amid a wave of book bans, my book could get prohibited from school shelves.
After right-wing activist Jonathan Stickland hosted Nick Fuentes in his office, many in the GOP have attacked Stickland’s critics.
A New York financier’s scheme “rolled up” anesthesiology practices across the state, according to a complaint by the Federal Trade Commission.
Once a rising star in the Republican Party, the former congressman’s pitch as a “common-sense” Republican didn’t resonate with today’s GOP.
On Wednesday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals declared the 67-year-old Native American innocent of a 1981 murder.
Ahead of a special legislative session, the governor has implied there will be political consequences for those who get in his way.
The congressman joins a handful of House Republicans who insist they’ll fund the government only when they get deep spending cuts and harsh border-control measures that have no chance of passing the Senate.
The attorney general is going on a right-wing media tour to complain—with no evidence—about a bipartisan conspiracy against him.