WEST TEXAS

Nearly four dozen migrants were found dead in an overheated tractor trailer on an industrial road in south San Antonio Monday. Many of them had been sprinkled with steak seasoning in a possible attempt by smugglers to ward off authorities, law enforcement officials said.

2011 was the driest year on record for Texas, causing an estimated cost of $7.62 billion in crop and livestock losses. A dry and hot June has many sounding alarm bells about 2022.

We review dozens of restaurants each month. Here’s a peek at what’s new.

The first public hearings in Texas looking into the Uvalde school massacre have centered on law enforcement blunders, school building safety and mental health.

My dream of navigating through Big Bend’s stunning canyons finally came true. I just had to start a little farther downstream.

How to get the adventure and scenery without having to spend days in your kayak or canoe.

Jenny Cudd might regret storming the Capitol. But she’s still pushing election conspiracies.

Approximate 165,000 homes and businesses were without water this week, as temperatures hovered near 100 degrees.

Officials in the West Texas city of Odessa say residents may again safely drink tap water without having to boil it first.

With structural growth continuing in West Texas, the need for electrical and electronic engineering technologists in the region is increasing.

Near Fort Stockton, Hoven Riley has been quietly growing more than 20,000 of the plants, which are being illicitly uprooted from public and private lands.

Residents of the West Texas city of Odessa have been improvising emergency water supplies after a water system outage left them high and dry for days amid scorching heat, even as utility crews scrambled to restore normal service.

Founded in 1973, Texas Monthly has been reporting on abortion access in Texas since the Roe v. Wade ruling. Here's what you need to know.

Officials haven’t specified what caused the break, but say the broken line is about 60 years old.

The Heartbeat Act is forcing families to journey to oversubscribed clinics in other states—offering a preview of life in post-Roe America.

The historic 6666 Ranch in West Texas has officially sold. Here's a look back at it's place in history, and what was there.

At least 11 were killed in 7 separate recent mass shootings.

San Antonio’s Community Cultures Yeast Lab—the only one of its kind in the southern U.S.—collects indigenous strains for craft breweries.

Persistent drought conditions in West Texas and northern Mexico are raising concerns about water storage in the Valley’s critical two reservoirs, Amistad and Falcon. Particularly alarming is the news the Rio Grande has completely dried up at the monitoring station at Johnson Ranch. Yet for the first time since the 1980s, farmers and officials in New Mexico are bracing for the Rio Grande to run dry. I tracked the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) website and it’s been dry, dry, dry,” Hinojosa said. “I’m very anxious to see what impact the recent rains have had on our reservoirs, our water supply system,” Hinojosa said.

Authorities say five teens were hospitalized, two in critical condition, after gunfire broke out at an overnight high school graduation party at a West Texas home.

Blue Origin will launch six more people to the final frontier Saturday morning (June 4), and you can watch the action live.

With Texas’s annual Free Fishing Day, you can cast your line without all the red tape. No license required!

Even though the property lacks air-conditioning and comes with a "summertime disclaimer," the off-the-grid desert stay in Terlingua made Airbnb's top 10 "most wishlisted" rentals.

An Air Force spokeswoman said that the service is changing its policy on formation landings as a result of the incident and investigation.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Once again, one of America's deadliest mass shootings happened in Texas.Past shootings targeted worshippers during a Sunday sermon, shoppers at a Walmart, students on a high schoo[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

A group of Mexican sotoleros, an activist, and some Mexican government officials take issue with Texas-based producers of the rising spirit.

As rumors swirl about the origins of the crisis, West Texas parents turn to one another for help.

Hundreds of wildfires have broken out this spring. More than a dozen areas are under voluntary or mandatory water use restrictions, and more than 200 Texas counties have been designated as crop disaster areas.

The gunman who killed 19 elementary school children and two teachers in Texas added to the state's grim recent history of mass shootings.

A former San Antonio police detective who racked up three indefinite suspensions during his time with SAPD was arrested in a West Texas cattle theft operation that also led to the arrest of a county judge.

Authorities say three West Texas residents were killed when the SUV they were riding in while it was being towed on a New Mexico highway rolled after both vehicles ran off the road.

J. B. Gallegos has just one word for the action of spackling a perfectly even layer of masa onto a corn husk: art. His family built its legacy in the West

The top elected official in a rural and sparsely populated West Texas county has been arrested after being accused of stealing cattle.

A new travel report listed the "most beautiful place" in each state. A West Texas site claimed the title in the Lone Star State.

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More than 5,000 firefighters are battling multiple wildland blazes in dry, windy weather across the Southwest.

Texas A&M Forest Service has responded to nine fires across the state this week, saying they “have the potential to exhaust state and local resources.”

Texas A&M Forest Service is warning Texans about the potential for wildfires.

Extreme weather events, water scarcity, risks of illness: Climate change is here, and it’s already affecting Texans.

Krueger, a conservative Texas Democrat, was a politician and U.S. diplomat to two African...

Bob Krueger, a conservative Texas Democrat, was a politician and U.S. diplomat to two African countries.

Krueger, a conservative Texas Democrat, was a politician and U.S. diplomat to two African countries.

The Rendezvous Land Yacht is parked in the middle of the West Texas desert near Big Bend National Park and can be rented for $120 per night.

Texas oil production could see a boost because of the import restrictions put in place on Russia by President Biden, experts tell state lawmakers.

In Webb County, March represented the 16th driest month in the last 128 years, according...

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The governor’s move to bus migrants to D.C. may be an attempt to stick it to Joe Biden, but it’s playing out in ways he didn’t anticipate.

Like other states, Texas found out during the pandemic how critical high-speed broadband is for school, work and medicine. And the state is working to expand it — but it’s going to be at least a year before Texans start to see results.

Nestled by the majestic Rio Grande and Big Bend National Park, Lajitas Golf Resort and Spa gave me the recharge I needed. Until it didn’t.

Reader letters published in our April 2022 issue.

Twenty-five years ago, an armed militia tried to secede. When will it happen again?

Dangerous gas leaking from an abandoned well has become an issue in the colorful Railroad Commission runoff election.

Rural Texas was meant to get 10% of state bonds for water projects. A report shows it’s getting less than 1%.

For many Texans, Buc-ee’s is a beloved, mega gas station known for its clean restrooms and beaver nuggets.

He's not venomous.

Allergy season has begun in Texas according to Sam Hogue, a doctor and professor with the...

Rural Texas communities often don’t have the resources, technical experience, or ability to take on large amounts of debt to pursue state funds for water supply and quality projects. So, many simply don’t apply.

The fast-casual restaurant franchise Big Chicken — owned by the big man himself, NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal — is entering the San Antonio market.

The anonymous artist calls the piece “a light-hearted jab . . . at America’s propensity for ever-expanding excess.”

On April 7, Somerset ISD’s athletic department will be selling brown bag lunches with hamburgers, chips and a drink for $8.

Here's how H-E-B is helping the environment.

Born out of the Great Depression, the pieces are still handcrafted in San Angelo and are in as much demand as ever.

A man fatally shot himself after shooting and injuring his girlfriend Friday at the West Texas beef processing plant where they both worked, police said. San Angelo police said officers responded to the shooting at Lone Star Beef Processors at about 8:30 a.m. The 57-year-old man and 49-year-old woman were both taken to a hospital, where he died and she was in stable condition, police said. San Angelo is about 260 miles (418 kilometers) southwest of Dallas.

Texas Country Reporter revisits James H. Evans after thirty years. His long career has taken different turns, but his unwavering commitment to the people and places of West Texas defines his legacy.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is launching six people into space on Thursday morning from West Texas.

Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company Blue Origin will launch six people to the final frontier Thursday morning (March 31), and you can watch the action live.

Get your kicks on the long and winding road from Presidio to Texarkana

Texas’ Route 67 Is Route 66 Without the Cheap Souvenirs Get your kicks on the long and winding road from Texarkana to PresidioRoughly 80,000 miles of highways crisscross Texas, but few roads in this state, if any, are as beautiful or as enjoyable to drive as US 67. Originally designated in 1926 as part of the United States Numbered Highway System, Route 67 travels 1,560 miles from Presidio to Sabula, Iowa. Its northern Texas terminus is Texarkana, giving it an in-state length of nearly 640 miles. Starting in Texarkana and heading southwest, 67 meanders through the Piney Woods for a while before merging with Interstate 30 near Saltillo. No, it’s not nearly as renowned as its cousin from the same era, the famed Route 66, which runs through the Panhandle.

From a puppeteer to a Black playwright to a Waco rebel, each woman carved her own path in theater

Blue Origin has delayed the fourth crewed launch of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle from Tuesday (March 29) to Thursday (March 31), citing predicted high winds over the next couple of days.

Over several years, Richard West spent two months in seven Texas locales. His reporting eventually won the National Magazine Award.

Labor shortages, supply chain issues, hesitant financial backers, frosty relationship with the Biden administration limit oil production increases.

Labor shortages, supply chain issues, hesitant financial backers and a frosty relationship with the Biden administration have limited how much Texas oil and gas companies are ramping up production.

Labor shortages, supply chain issues, hesitant financial backers and a frosty relationship with the Biden administration have limited how much Texas oil and gas companies are ramping up production.

Arrests of U.S. citizens hundreds of miles from the border. Claiming drug busts from across the state. Changing statistics. The data that Texas leaders use to boast about Operation Lone Star raise more questions than answers.

A trip for the University of the Southwest’s golf teams turned into tragedy on Tuesday evening when their van was struck head-on by a Dodge pickup truck, driven by a 13-year-old boy.

The investigation into this week’s fiery head-on crash in West Texas now focuses on the revelation that a 13-year-old was driving the pickup truck that struck a van, killing nine people, including six members of a college golf team and their coach.

Authorities investigating a fiery head-on crash in Texas don’t know why a 13-year-old boy was driving while his father sat in the passenger seat.

The investigation into this week’s fiery head-on crash in West Texas now focuses on the revelation that a 13-year-old was driving the pickup truck that struck a van, killing nine people, including six members of a college golf team and their coach.

Authorities are trying to determine why a pickup truck crossed into the opposite lane on a darkened, two-lane West Texas highway before colliding head-on with a van, killing nine people including six New Mexico college students and a golf coach.

A Pleasanton High School graduate was among nine people killed in a fiery, head-on collision Tuesday night in West Texas.

Authorities say the person fatally shot last week by a sheriff’s deputy at a West Texas apartment complex was a 14-year-old boy.

A Texas inmate who was scheduled to be the first to be executed by the state this year received a reprieve from an appeals court.

A West Texas man has pleaded guilty to hate-crime charges relating to an attack on an Asian family at a warehouse store.

These Texas destinations can feel like international getaways.

One of the five candidates for the Republican Texas Railroad Commission nomination has been killed in a traffic crash while traveling from a West Texas campaign appearance.

The amended report came 13 days after the deadline and as the attorney general nears a hotly contested primary in which his ethics are a top issue.

Officials say a 41-year-old West Texas sheriff’s deputy has died after a crash with a truck.

Only 40% of Texas’ rural hospitals offer labor and delivery services, forcing some patients to drive hundreds of miles to give birth. With nurses in short supply, more hospitals are considering cutting those services entirely.

Energy experts said the production drop during a relatively ordinary cold front could be a bad sign for the grid if the state is struck by extreme winter weather again.

Officials with the Big Bend National Park said vandals destroyed ancient art with graffiti over the holidays — and most of the damage can’t be undone.

A West Texas grand jury has indicted a man in the death of his ex-girlfriend's 13-year-old daughter reported missing more than a decade ago.

Revelatory, deep and empathetic reporting takes time — and money. The support members give now will sustain the Tribune's crucial newsgathering next year.

Police in West Texas on Monday arrested a 15-year-old boy after shots were fired a day earlier at a mall.

NFL great Michael Strahan has rocketed into space on a Jeff Bezos rocket.

The Federal Aviation Administration says it will no longer give out commercial astronaut wings starting next year because too many people are launching into space.

Despite a surge of arrests under Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative, a Kinney County judge removed three judges who have been helping him hear the cases. The judges had been letting some of the migrants out after months in prison, and defense attorneys say the action is retaliatory.

Critics of the Chapter 313 corporate tax incentive program say it lacks accountability and is burdensome to taxpayers in the state.

A West Texas man has been acquitted of murder in the 2019 fatal shooting of a police officer who was shot while checking a security alarm at the man's home.