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A Texas woman asked a couple for a “minimum” of $150 in ... She joined McClatchy in 2023 after covering local news in ...

Republican Rep. Beth Van Duyne won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Texas on Tuesday. The former mayor of the Dallas suburb of Irving won her third term in Congress. The hard-charging ...

Garnett, 72, has lived in and written about Uvalde since 1982. He fell for its pecan trees, big sky beauty and the people who ...

Texas's largest newspaper, the Houston Chronicle, has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election ...

Texas has a deep housing shortage that’s driving up home prices and rents. And it’s getting worse. In 2022, Texas needed about 320,000 more homes than it had, up from about 306,000 the ...

It's not your ordinary battle between family members but a battle between his widow Nora Canales and a woman who claims she's ...

Villarreal is a journalist in the Texas border town of Laredo. She is at the center of a legal battle with significant First ...

Stay informed about tornado watches and warnings through regular updates on local news or a NOAA Weather Radio. If you are ...

This will be the fourth meeting between Texas and Florida. Texas holds a 2-0-1 lead in the series, but the last meeting took place in 1940.

Monarch butterflies are migrating through the Permian Basin, embarking on a 2,000-mile journey to Mexico as part of their ...