In Texas, that’s what we call many of our ponds. But why?

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While researching her first book, Pamela Colloff dug into the saga of a brazen criminal—and, for a while, fell for his act.

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Thirty years after it was recorded, the chopped and screwed freestyle that defined Houston hip-hop hasn’t lost its purple ...

The seven-mile “Green Corridor” linking the FIFA Fan Festival to NRG Stadium is two and a half hours of misery. Take my word ...

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The Western District of Texas ruled against the state, allowing the mosque’s religious freedom lawsuit against the funeral ...

U.S. 90 takes you from the scrubby borderlands in the west to the coastal plains and into the Piney Woods of East Texas.

To understand the newly gerrymandered Eleventh Congressional District, I knew I had to see it—all of it—for myself.

Along the bottomlands of the Neches River, descendants of this legendary clan still hunt, fish, and live off the land they ...