Great film and TV projects are sometimes a reinterpretation of a great book. And the most popular book of all time? Well, that’d be the Bible, with billions of copies sold. So perhaps it’s no wonder ...

I know a good deal about Texas literature, both fiction and nonfiction, but I have far less knowledge as to what classic and historical Texas books in good condition are worth. Larry McMurtry once ...

But robots, the company says, can go places that aren’t safe for people — and can sometimes perform tasks faster and more ...

An official review of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement begins in July. President Trump already has suggested the U.S. would be better off without it.

Catastrophic flooding hit the Texas Hill County on July 4 when Kerrville received 10 to 12 inches of rain in a matter of hours. The Guadalupe River rose 26 feet within 45 minutes, according to state ...

Juneteenth marks the moment Union troops arrived in Galveston to enforce emancipation, freeing a quarter million enslaved people in Texas in 1865. The Standard’s Sean Saldana reports on how the city ...

The power went out for millions of Texans during a massive storm in February 2021. Hundreds of people died. How could something like this happen in the energy capital of the U.S.? Hosted by Mose ...

Joseph Faraj fled his homeland in 1977, just a few years after the outbreak of a civil war that claimed an estimated 150,000 lives. “It was bad situation, war in Lebanon,” he said. “It was everywhere ...

A Texas law meant to encourage financial transparency is putting pressure on small cities that are struggling to complete required audits. If municipalities fall behind, they can lose access to future ...

Last week, automaker Tesla filed paperwork with the Secretary of State’s office to reincorporate the company here in Texas. The company used to be incorporated in Delaware, but in January CEO Elon ...

As we all learned during the pandemic, washing your hands and washing them well is kind of Germ Spread Prevention 101. But that always wasn’t well known. It took Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis’ ...

Lawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize winner who’s written a lot about the state he calls home. Part of that series focuses on the prison system, and Wright focuses in on one part of that women’s death ...