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A handful of medical school students gather in the back room of a small building inside the Esperanza Community in Southeast Austin on a Sunday in December. Hunched over laptops, they prepare for the ...

As Austin was coordinating COVID-19 test centers and trying to secure personal protective equipment at the start of the pandemic, it was also buying land. Lots of it. Thirteen acres by July 2020.

Sightings of unknown aircraft in the skies above New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland have some people unnerved, while others offer conspiracy theories about who could be responsible. The craft, ...

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Texas ranked second in the nation for the number of executions carried out in 2024. This year’s annual report from the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (TCADP) found the state skewed ...

Even before Gov. Greg Abbott officially secured the votes he needs to pass vouchers when state lawmakers reconvene in January, the superintendent of San Antonio’s largest school district had already ...

They call San Benito “the Resaca City.” It’s known for the river-shaped lakes that used to be tributaries of the Rio Grande. There are parks built around a few of them and any given day you’ll see ...

A new state law says drivers will no longer need to get an annual vehicle safety inspection starting Jan. 1, 2025. But in urban counties across Texas, emissions tests are still required to get that ...

The Texas Legislature will be back in session in mid January. Yet, with less than a month until kickoff, the state’s Republicans are still undecided on who they want to be the next Texas House speaker ...

EAGLE PASS — Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday announced a new campaign of installing billboards in Central America and Mexico with messages about sexual assault and Texas’ border enforcement efforts — an ...

Sheila Jackson Lee, Kinky Friedman and Johnny Canales are just a few of the notable Texans who passed away in 2024. There are many others who may not be household names, but whose contributions to the ...