What you need to know about threats at schools
Texas lawmakers have mandated new school safety policies including armed guards at every public school campus, classroom panic buttons and more staff training.
North Texas Senate runoff creates strange bedfellows, divides usual allies within GOP
The battle to succeed retiring state Sen. Drew Springer has come down to a May 28 runoff between Brent Hagenbuch and Jace Yarbrough.
Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocks Harris County’s guaranteed income pilot program
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is challenging the program, saying it violates the Texas Constitution. The first payments may have already gone out.
T-Squared: Texas Tribune and partners share Collier Prize for State Government Accountability
We were recognized, with ProPublica and FRONTLINE, for our investigation into law enforcement’s handling of the 2022 elementary school shooting in Uvalde.
Join us for a May 8 conversation on West Texas and the oil and gas industry
We’ll talk about how the industry has changed Midland and Odessa, how oil companies are partnering with local entities to train the next generation of oil workers, and what is being done to address environmental concerns.
Join us for a May 9 conversation about local news and democracy
We’ll talk about local news and news deserts in Texas, how communities are ipacted and what can be done to ensure Texans across the state have access to reliable local news.
In one Texas county, elections officials shoulder new costs and burdens to appease skeptics
Brazos County election officials are responding to demands from skeptical residents by expanding hand counts and ordering special paper.
Texas politics leave transgender foster youth isolated — during and after life in state care
Support once afforded LGBTQ+ foster kids has vanished and a culture of silence has blanketed the agency tasked with raising children growing up in the system.
Texas inmates are being ‘cooked to death’ in extreme heat, complaint alleges
With the threat of another hot summer ahead, advocates asked a federal judge to declare 100-degree-plus conditions in uncooled Texas facilities unconstitutional.
Seattle Children’s Hospital won’t have to provide trans patient records to Texas under new settlement
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton suspected the hospital was helping Texas kids access puberty blockers or hormone treatments that are outlawed for juveniles.