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 ...

UT Austin is changing the courses students must take as part of its core curriculum, including a greater emphasis on Western civilization. The revisions come amid a broader debate over politics and ...

Here are the stories on Texas Standard for Friday, Aug. 14, 2026. Check back later today for updated story links and audio. More than 20,000 Texas students give up school vouchers More than 20,700 ...

Tech companies are hungry for the massive computing capacity required to support AI. But their ambitions to build huge data centers around the country, including a lot of them here in Texas, are ...

Texas election officials are restoring some voters to the rolls after a federal verification system incorrectly flagged them as potential noncitizens. More than 2,700 voters were initially identified, ...

Nearly 1 in 5 Texans experiences food insecurity — and that rate is continuing to rise. That’s according to a new study by Feeding America, a national network of food banks. The study examines hunger ...