It's estimated that half a million people live in colonias along the Texas-Mexico border. These communities lack basic needs for the residents, including running water, storm drainage and sewage. What are the challenges of living in a colonia? Who is responsible for improving the substandard conditions?

The Texas Division of Emergency Management will decide how to use the money.

A requirement to work 80 hours a month, starting in September, could affect 44,000 Texans over age 49. Meanwhile, attention in Congress shifts to the farm bill’s significant impact on food stamp policy.

The Democratic plan aims to help renters by giving them a cash rebate of up to 10% on rent paid in the last tax year.

Patrick Crusius, of North Texas, faced survivors and victims' relatives in El Paso still traumatized by the Aug. 3, 2019 mass shooting. The attack was one of the deadliest against Hispanic people in recent history.

Critics say the ‘Omnibase’ program — designed to spur people to pay off old tickets — often leaves poor Texans trapped in a cycle of debt.

The Los Indios Republican won a special election in 2022 but lost to U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez five months later in the general election.

Planetary geologist Ania Losiak is scouring the Odessa crater for the remains of plants and creatures killed by the small asteroid in hopes to better understand what happens when asteroids strike the Earth.

The Walmart shooter faces life in prison. In February, he pleaded guilty to 90 federal charges including hate crimes.

Michael Lockhart was an eyewitness to a chaotic shooting in Fort Worth's Como neighborhood over the July Fourth holiday that left three people dead and eight wounded.