Authorities discovered a whopping 27 bricks of cocaine on the Texas Coast Tuesday, according to a report from the Galveston County Daily News. If that sounds familiar, yes, it keeps happening. Police recovered the nose candy on Galveston’s West End beach around 9:12 a.m. after reports that suspicious packages had washed up onshore. Side note: […]
This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook, X, and Bluesky. The 3-year-old has barely slept in six months. She wakes up in the middle of the night calling for her father. The mother rises, gives the girl milk to calm […]
Between November 2025 and February 2026, police stopped three Latino immigrants in Taylor, then contacted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who took custody of the men and placed them in deportation proceedings without an opportunity for a bond hearing. The three men had crossed the Texas-Mexico border separately and had lived in the country […]
San Antonio talks a big game when it comes to quality of life, but a new study suggests the city continues to treat green space like a luxury item. San Antonio’s national ranking for access to public parks fell behind that of other major Texas cities in the latest annual ParkScore report from conservation advocacy […]
The Dilley Immigration Processing Center near San Antonio costs taxpayers roughly $15 million a month to operate, according to a Houston Chronicle investigation. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) pays $13.1 million monthly to run the facility — plus another $2.5 million for medical care — for the only U.S. detention center for migrant children […]
Fifteen more Jollibee fast-food restaurants are expected to pop up in the San Antonio as the Philippine fast-service restaurant targets Texas as one of its key growth markets. Following the success of a San Antonio location opened in late 2020 and three Dallas-Fort Worth stores, the brand is now hunting for “white space” to begin […]
WACO — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is under fire for a plea deal his prosecutors offered last month to a Waco man charged with repeatedly sexually abusing a young boy. The deal in the case, which Paxton’s office took over about three years ago after the locally elected district attorney recused himself, would have let […]
San Antonio Water System’s board of trustees voted unanimously on Tuesday to move forward with the utility’s first proposed rate hike since 2020 — a move that could drive up average household water users’ monthly bills by nearly $20 over time. Even so, the measure still needs approval from at least five members of San Antonio […]
A cohort of Latino civil-rights and labor groups is warning foreign visitors thinking about visiting Texas for the upcoming World Cup to scrap those plans due to the White House’s immigration crackdown and the state’s willing participation. “You cannot market Texas as a welcoming global destination for the World Cup while expanding policies that increase […]
When nearly 4.5 million Texans showed up for the state’s March primaries earlier this year, it broke midterm turnout records. But recent history suggests most of them won’t be back for the May 26 runoff. In the state’s previous midterm cycle, runoff turnout dropped to just 8.2% of registered voters statewide, data shows. Some districts recorded […]