The Trump administration’s bans and airport detentions are derailing the academic dreams of students who carry out important ...

The New York firm Odyssey is now running the state’s lucrative voucher scheme with a little help from the governor’s friends.

Each year, nearly 800,000 people pay a small admission fee to pass through the gates of the capital city’s spring-fed ...

Pending drug charges have been abandoned from the multi-agency April operation that supposedly targeted Tren de Aragua and ...

The notorious 287(g) task force program has finally reached DPS, raising fears of widespread racial profiling.

Whenever I see one, I think: fashion show. Something from Chanel. A bit of art deco. That black and white aesthetic.

Texas' largest school district may even convert its renowned performing arts institution under a program that benefitted the ...

Austin historian tells the under-told story of Audley Moore, “one of the most important activists and theorists of the ...

East Texans are uniting to fight oil waste pits in bucolic areas near the Louisiana line—all run by an operator who’s been cited for dozens of violations, and a worker’s death.

The White Shaman mural is painted on the east wall of a southwest-facing shelter, and faces due west. The positioning of figures within the mural suggests alignment with sun and shadow as observed on ...

A version of this story ran in the May 2016 issue. The first thing she noticed was Sheriff Pamela Elliott standing across the street. It was an August evening in 2014, and Rachel Gallegos had just ...

An Observer investigation has found irregularities in how the Houston ISD superintendent's Colorado charter school nonprofit did business in Texas. In June 2023, the Texas Education Agency took over ...