Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Texas Observer

‘The Search Committee’ Is a Subtle Rebuke of the Border Literary Canon

José Skinner’s fast-paced satire delivers sharp insights gleaned from years lived in Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley.

Texas Observer

Rules of the Robe

A sharp-eyed retiree uncovered evidence of judicial misconduct by the chief judge of Houston’s busy bankruptcy court. The unusual story highlights how other complaints against judges go ignored.

Texas Observer

Floodplains Belong to the Rivers

From Houston to the Hill Country, we Texans keep doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result.

Texas Observer

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Penned Poetry: A Formerly Incarcerated Activist’s Turn to Verse

Longtime advocate Jorge Antonio Renaud lyricizes the grit of prison life in his first published collection of poems, The Restlessness of Bound Wrists.

Texas Observer

The Texas GOP’s ‘Unprecedented,’ Risky Gerrymandering Scheme

A redistricting expert discusses Tom Delay, ‘dummymanders,’ and the long history of racial gerrymandering in the state.

Texas Observer

The San Antonio Flood of 1921 Held Lessons We Refuse to Learn

There is nothing unknown about what triggered the brutal Hill Country flood of 2025 and so many others dating back to the nineteenth century.

Texas Observer

The Adoption Trap

Private foster care and adoption agencies in Texas are brokering contracts for moms to turn over their children in a murky legal world, spawning protracted civil custody battles.

Texas Observer

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

How Trump’s IRS May Unshackle Churches from Their Political Restraints

As if everyday life in these United States wasn’t politicized enough, your local house of worship could soon become a part of the campaign battlefield.

Texas Observer

Robert Roberson Faces New Execution Date in Controversial ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’ Case

The new date comes after Ken Paxton took over the case that could lead to the nation's first execution based on the contested diagnosis.

Texas Observer

Proposed Transmission Line Threatens Texas’ Largest Reservoir

If approved, opponents warn that a massive new utility project could disrupt toxic sediment, and more, in Lake Livingston—Houston’s “most critical” water source.

Texas Observer

The History of Eugenics in Texas Isn’t What You Think

A new book unearths a chapter of the state’s story when anti-intellectual fundamentalism was put to good ends.

Texas Observer

Poem for the Guadalupe River from a previous Mystic camper

I remember the river, flowing so peacefully and slowly you could almost miss its motion I remember the river, mirroring the vastness of the starry sky stretched far beyond the nestled valley I remember the river, with its deep, dreamy green reflecting neighboring, billowing trees I remember the river, offering…

Texas Observer

‘I Think We’re Gonna Stay’: Texans Hang On in Tragedy-Stricken Hill Country

The Richardsons are among the lucky in Kerr County, at the epicenter of “flash flood alley,” who narrowly survived the river’s sudden rise.

Texas Observer

In the Hill Country and Beyond, Rural Texas Counties Lack Resources for Flood Detection

A federally funded project at Rice University is trying to tackle that problem, but in just two counties so far.

Texas Observer

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Texas Observer

‘Disasters Are a Human Choice’: Texas Counties Have Little Power to Stop Building in Flood-Prone Areas

Texas Observer

I Remember the 2002 Fourth of July Hill Country Floods. This Year, the Water Returned.

These floods do not come from nowhere. They are an effect of larger historical, structural, and environmental processes.

Texas Observer

Climate Change Helped Fuel Heavy Rains that Led to Devastating Hill Country Flood

Officials are reporting more than 100 fatalities in Kerr County, including 28 children.

Texas Observer

In Abilene, Stargate Project Puts AI Boom Ahead of Human Health

The first data center for a $500-billion artificial intelligence project arrives in small-town Texas, alongside a potentially harmful natural gas plant.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Texas Observer

Can a Great Museum City Survive the Censorious Right?

Fear and reticence spread in Fort Worth as Sally Mann’s nude photos of her children were held as police evidence.

Texas Observer

Trump’s DOGE Cuts Are a Texas-Sized Disaster

Reckless agency layoffs and the dismantling of federal relief programs could leave the Lone Star State in peril.

Texas Observer

How Republicans Are Willfully Endangering Immigrant Kids

GOP lawmakers often claim they want to protect children, but their policy decisions tell a different story.

Texas Observer

‘With What Water?’

Drought has hollowed out Chihuahua’s Conchos Valley and bred civil unrest as South Texas demands the water it’s owed.

Texas Observer

Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our July/August 2025 Issue

A note from the editor-in-chief

Texas Observer

Moonlighting Midland Prosecutor Means Freedom for Samuel Sanchez

“He just cried. He was just overwhelmed with emotion.”

Texas Observer

The Rio Grande Valley as Heart of LGBTQ+ Resistance and Joy

As we celebrate Pride Month, I am struck by the contrast of what I know to be true about this region and what the popular narratives may be.

1 … 7 8 9 10

People

Lyndon Baines Johnson

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the National Weather Service

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Artificial Intelligence

Places

the Rio Grande Valley

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.