Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Republican Party of Texas delegates voted Saturday on a platform that called for new laws to require the Bible to be taught in public schools and a constitutional amendment that would require statewide […]
For those of a certain generation who like their music hard and heavy, the new wave of British Heavy Metal, or NWOBHM, represents a special era. The late ’70s and early ’80s surge in UK-based upstart metal acts leaned heavily into instrumental virtuosity, hooks, riffs and biker-influenced attire such as denim vests and leather. Chief […]
German actress Franka Potente said her “whole world opened up” when she traveled from her hometown of Dülmen, Germany, to Texas as a foreign exchange student circa 1990. She attended Humble High School northeast of Houston for her entire junior year. “I was a Humble Wildcat!” Potente, 49, told the Current during a recent interview.
Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. MIDLAND — Mary Ann Estrella sat on a rented couch last November and ate, by candlelight, her Thanksgiving Dinner: a bologna sandwich.
With temperatures expected to hit or exceed 100 degrees this weekend, the City of San Antonio is taking steps to keep residents cool and safe. The city is opening 10 places for residents to stay cool, one in each City Council district. The sites will be open from noon to 8 p.m. over the long […]
San Antonio’s Briscoe Western Art Museum next month will become the latest host of the touring exhibition “Survival of the Fittest: Envisioning Wildlife and Wilderness with the Big Four.” The exhibition comes from The National Museum of Wildlife art in Wyoming in collaboration with the Netherlands’ Rijksmuseum.
Originally published by Deceleration, a nonprofit online journal producing original news and analysis responding to our shared ecological, political, and cultural crises. The first full blast of industrially supercharged heat of 2024 is arriving this week across San Antonio and South Texas. With temps expected to reach well above 10 degrees over the area’s historical […]
This story first appeared in NOTUS, a publication from the nonprofit, nonpartisan Allbritton Journalism Institute. WEBB COUNTY, Texas — Long before he was indicted, Rep. Henry Cuellar was considered the “King of Laredo.” And as he rose to power and prominence in South Texas, he brought his sister Rosie and brother Martin with him. Along the […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. In one of his last speeches as chair of the Republican Party of Texas, Matt Rinaldi declared victory.
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Several Uvalde families are suing Daniel Defense, the gun company whose AR-15 style rifle an 18-year-old gunman used to kill 19 children and two teachers and injure several others at Robb Elementary two […]