HUTTO, Texas — When Alek Micklethwait received his electricity bill in May, he was stunned. It was $545, more than double what his family had been paying during cooler weather, since moving into a ...

From the American Homefront Project: It’s been more than ten months since Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced a plan to clean up the places where most younger troops live. In an October 2025 ...

A debate over books in Texas’ public school libraries picked up new attention when Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick threatened legislative action unless school districts pull books from the shelves that he and ...

A legal fight over whether Texas must extradite an ICE agent wanted over a shooting in Minnesota is raising unusual constitutional questions about interstate cooperation. Gov. Greg Abbott has not ...

Yesterday, Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, agreed to pay up to $17 billion to settle claims with nearly every state in the country. Texas struck its own deal worth more than $1 ...

The U.S.-Canada trade dispute escalated this week after the Trump administration imposed 50 percent tariffs on billions of dollars in Canadian goods and Ottawa responded with retaliatory tariffs of ...

Dolly Parton had millions of fans in Texas, but relatively few direct ties to the state. One of the strongest was with a man who’s been helping to define the sound of Texas music for more than a half ...

High costs are leading a lot of folks to make some hard decisions about spending, including on their pets. A poll from Gallup and PetSmart charities found more than half of pet owners skipped needed ...

Since completing treatment for breast cancer, Toni Keller tries to stick to a healthy diet — she consumes lots of fruits and vegetables and no red meat. Keller, 65, moved into Storm Lake Senior ...

After the deadly 2021 winter storms and blackouts, Texas planned a massive expansion of high-voltage transmission lines to strengthen the grid, particularly in fast-growing West Texas. But now, ...

The Childress High School football team recently posted a widely-seen photo on Instagram of a practice taking place on the dirt floor of a show barn. The caption explained that they were there per the ...