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The gubernatorial candidate may have become what he once seemed to cast aside.

A Lone Star journalist finds himself shoulder to shoulder with rioters on Jan. 6, 2021.

Laredo's vaccination program has innoculated more than 60,000 Mexican residents.

For eight years, Cristal M. Vera danced on a raised stage bathed in violet light inside a windowless club along busy West Expressway 83 in Harlingen. She and other entertainers served as the main attractions for the strip club called Jaguars. And though they worked long hours, performing on stage…

In November 2012, Austin voters were asked to approve a proposition that promised to expand health care for the poor. They approved a ballot measure creating a pool of $35 million in tax money each year for the nonprofit Central Health, an agency charged by the state with funding indigent…

The “I can see clearly now” singer was much more than a one-hit wonder.

If you thought 2021 was brutal, 2022 may be worse.

During the pandemic, once-ordinary dinners with friends take on new meaning.

Texas money laundering investigations provided federal regulators with a roadmap for overseeing the real estate industry. They didn’t follow it.

The purpose of this project was to take a rehabilitative approach toward this history of oppression.

San Antonio officials say demolition orders are a tool of last resort—yet issue them far more often than every other major city in Texas combined.