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A new “managed assigned counsel” system has been created in the county to help jailed people get better legal representation.

Hope dwindles for Congress to fix racist Texas voting laws and gerrymandering.

For 10 years, I “smuggled” banned books across state lines to bring attention to crucial literature. This year, I won’t have to leave Texas for the fight.

With a bevy of hyper-conservative challengers, Greg Abbott is scrambling to cover his right flank.

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.