Researcher visits Odessa Meteor Crater to help prepare humanity for future...
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...
View ArticleNational GOP recruiting Mayra Flores, ousted from her South Texas seat, to...
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.
View ArticleA Texas program pushes drivers to pay old tickets; more than 600,000 have...
Critics say the ‘Omnibase’ program — designed to spur people to pay off old tickets — often leaves poor Texans trapped in a cycle of debt.
View Article'Evil parasite': Victims' loved ones confront El Paso Walmart gunman who...
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...
View ArticleTexas Democrats push for property tax relief proposal that includes renters
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.
View ArticleAlzheimer's drug Leqembi gets full FDA approval. Medicare coverage will...
The first drug found to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease has been granted full approval by the Food and Drug Administration.
View ArticleCouncilmember Castillo wants to use San Antonio’s opioid settlement funds to...
A new policy request calls for using the city’s opioid settlement funds to also expand local harm reduction programs and drug addiction education efforts.
View ArticleBexar County sheriff, California officials ask for federal probe into migrant...
Sheriff Javier Salazar joined California Gov. Gavin Newsom in requesting the U.S. Department of Justice initiate an investigation to determine if laws were broken during migrant flights from Texas to...
View ArticleGunman in 2019 El Paso Walmart shooting sentenced to 90 consecutive life...
The gunman still faces state charges that could result in him receiving the death penalty. There is no timeline on when that trial will begin.
View ArticleSchool property ban on Uvalde father lifted after planned litigation
The two-year ban on Uvalde parent Adam Martinez has been lifted after the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression threatened to proceed with litigation against the Uvalde Consolidated...
View ArticleTexas State professor awarded grant to research bilingual math instruction
Assistant Professor José Martinez Hinestroza will research the ways bilingual elementary students participate in math class.
View ArticleWith new federal food stamp limits coming, advocates mobilize to inform Texas...
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.
View ArticleTexas gets $60 million in federal funds to strengthen power grid against...
The Texas Division of Emergency Management will decide how to use the money.
View ArticleFamily of Melissa Perez files lawsuit against San Antonio and its police...
The lawsuit said Perez was the latest victim of a police force culture of excessive force, lack of training, and undervaluing mental health.
View ArticleRepublicans and Democrats are living in separate realities, new study suggests
The study found that people were more likely to rate a claim as true if it supports their political party.
View ArticleState Sen. Roland Gutierrez enters Democratic primary targeting U.S. Sen. Ted...
Known for pushing gun restrictions after the Uvalde school shooting in his district, Gutierrez will vie for the opportunity to take on Republican Cruz in the general election. U.S. Rep. Colin Allred,...
View ArticleSaharan dust to add to the weather misery index this week
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality reports light Saharan dust is expected to continue to expand northward and westward from the Gulf of Mexico this week, further adding to San Antonio's...
View ArticleState Sen. Roland Gutierrez aims to unseat Ted Cruz from U.S. Senate
'Our systems in Texas are broken,' he said in an interview with TPR, 'and they're broken because of people like Ted Cruz.'
View ArticleTexas House and Senate reach a deal on how to cut property taxes
The deal would channel $12 billion to reduce the school property tax rate for homeowners and business properties, increase the homestead exemption, and create a pilot program to reduce taxes on certain...
View ArticleSAPD experiments with policy that gives drivers vouchers instead of tickets...
San Antonio is the first city in Texas to implement a program that helps drivers pay for repairs.
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