Now available on your favorite podcast app, Episode 131 of the award-winning “Stories Bigger Than Texas” reveals how just footsteps from where the world-famous Battle of the Alamo was fought, a new generation of frontiersmen led by future president Theodore Roosevelt stepped up to fight for freedom. Listeners will hear the Alamo’s Researcher Thomas Ledesma explain why Teddy Roosevelt…

AUSTIN— Today, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., is pleased to announce the Grand Prize Winners of the Texas General Land Office’s (GLO) 2026 Save Texas History Essay Contest: 4th-graderJocelyn Narcy from Katy and 7th-grader Lizzy LaGrone from Texarkana. This year, 582 4th and 7th-grade students submitted essays discussing a historical person, event, place, group,…

By Ayden Runnels, The Texas Tribune May 7, 2026 In May, Texans’ access to abortion drug mifepristone was thrown into disarray after a federal appeals court ruled that people across the country must obtain the drug in person, and then, three days later, the Supreme Court temporarily blocked that ruling. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court…

By Jaden Edison, The Texas Tribune January 20, 2026 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation into whether public schools are displaying posters of the Ten Commandments, following a recent federal court ruling that the state can enforce a law requiring them to do so. More than two dozen Texas school districts must provide…

By Ayden Runnels, The Texas Tribune May 7, 2026 In May, Texans’ access to abortion drug mifepristone was thrown into disarray after a federal appeals court ruled that people across the country must obtain the drug in person, and then, three days later, the Supreme Court temporarily blocked that ruling. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court…

By Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune May 7, 2026 A 30-year-old South Texas man was freed by federal officials Thursday after being deported earlier this year, and returned to the United States, only to be detained once again. Before he was deported, José Contreras Díaz — whose mother raised him in the Rio Grande…

By Stephen Simpson, The Texas Tribune May 5, 2026 The Texas Department of State Health Services is lifting a new requirement for youth camps to install “end-to-end fiber optic facilities” in order to allow them to operate this summer, following a lawsuit from 19 camps that called the measure too challenging. The state health agency…

By Stephen Simpson, The Texas Tribune April 8, 2026 Smokeable hemp products, such as flower buds and rolled joints, are allowed back on shelves until the state’s appeal of a statewide ban on the sale of the drug is heard in court next Thursday. The state’s 15th Court of Appeals granted a request by lawyers…

By Olivia Borgula, The Texas Tribune May 8, 2026 Last year’s redistricting upended the makeup of Texas’ 35th Congressional District, prompting the Democratic incumbent, Rep. Greg Casar, to run for a different seat. The open race for the new TX-35 spurred competitive primaries on both sides, with two Democrats and two Republicans advancing to runoffs…