A rogue surgeon’s long Texas career left behind damaged and dead people—and a cautionary tale of how far a wealthy physician can go before anyone stops him. Brenda Phillips hangs onto a Houston summer ...

One juror recently stated, “It seemed to be an open and shut case.” During the punishment phase, where jurors in capital ...

Legislators are (sort of) beginning to grapple with the grim costs that come with the state’s data center boom.

We have an in everywhere. It's not hard to talk to other people that do the same thing that you do on a daily basis, and ...

The Cuban government has been blaming the United States for its problems since 1959—sometimes rightly, sometimes not. At this point, my only position comes from seeing a grandmother's coffee ...

The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center.

The citizen-journalist and social media provocateur's case against local officials was thrown out in a decision that ...

A version of this story ran in the May / June 2026 issue. What would’ve been school-choice proponents’ triumphant publicity tour after the application period closed on Texas’ shiny new voucher program ...

Houston ISD says its state-appointed superintendent has ended a paid agreement with Third Future Schools, after the Observer ...

If you have driven anywhere in the city of Denton over the past few years, you have noticed it. Orange barrels. Lane closures. Freshly churned earth where sidewalks used to be. Here is my opinion, ...

If left intact, the exemption for oil and gas companies in the Gulf of Mexico could forever harm vulnerable species and their habitats.