Uber and Lyft are returning to Austin on Monday, the same day Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign ride-hailing legislation passed by Texas lawmakers. 

Twenty years ago, a brown-skinned boy was shot to death near the Rio Grande. What fate awaits my own son? By Sterry Butcher.

Breaking ground— and betting big—on a doomsday community for the rich. By Sonia Smith.

She made headlines when she was only two months old, becoming the first child ever recovered by Arlington's then-fledgling Amber Alert system. Now, 18-year-old Rae-Leigh Bradbury is preparing to graduate high school and has some big plans after that. "I don't remember any of it, but I know the story," said Bradbury, who lives with her family in Fort Worth.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott stealth signs a new anti-immigrant bill so harsh that sheriffs and police chiefs oppose it. By Amanda Marcotte.

Researchers have been able to decipher half the mystery of the Marfa lights, but some things are still unexplained.

On the coast, nothing is permanent. By John Nova Lomax.

Tornadoes ripped through an East Texas county on Saturday evening, killing at least four people and injuring dozens of others, and authorities warned the number of casualties could rise.

Authorities in Texas say a police officer who notified his wife that he planned to kill himself actually faked his own death and fled to Mexico. An arrest affidavit revealed Friday that 29-year-old Austin officer Coleman Martin earlier in the week texted his wife a photo of a note indicating he meant to drown himself in a lake near the border with Mexico.

San Antonio Mayor Ivy Taylor is under fire for saying that "broken people" who aren't in touch with religion are at the root of poverty in her city. Taylor made the remarks at an April 3 forum where she and another mayoral candidate fielded questions including one from the director of San Antonio’s Christian Resource Center, who asked what they saw as "the deepest, systemic causes of generational poverty in San Antonio," the San Antonio Current reports.

Kathy and Robert Dyer received the phone call out of every parent’s nightmares at 3 a.m. on Aug. 14, 2013. A Mesquite police officer was telling them their 18-year-old son, Graham, was in the hospital with a serious head injury. They should come as quickly as possible. They sped in the dark south to Dallas from their home on a dirt road outside of Paris, in Northeast Texas, arriving at Baylor University Medical Center at dawn. Graham lay unresponsive in the intensive care unit beneath a bristle of medical tubes and instrumentation.

Kathy and Robert Dyer received the phone call out of every parent’s nightmares at 3 a.m... By Eric Dexheimer.

Many have expressed concern and outrage over the way police treat citizens, especially African-Americans and other minorities. The Black Lives Matter movement began in response to the deaths of African-Americans in police custody, including Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and the arrest of Sandra Bland, who was later found dead in a Waller County jail, an apparent suicide.

Reckless management of Nye Regional Medical Center in Tonopah, Nev., left a community bereft of jobs, health care and peace of mind. By Miles Moffelt.

The bill has now made its way into the hands of the Texas State Affairs Committee Tuesday.

A daycare worker is behind bars after he was caught on video slamming a 4-year-old girl to the ground last week at a daycare facility in Spring, Texas.

An 18-year-old Texas woman's claim that she was kidnapped and sexually assaulted was all a hoax, police say. Breana Harmon Talbott ignited a sense of fear and outrage in the Denison community, as well as on social media, after she said three black men in ski masks were responsible for kidnapping her, taking her into the woods, and raping her. The investigation began when police received a call on the evening of March 8 from a man claiming to be Talbott's fiance, Denison Police Chief Jay Burch said in a release.

“I drove to work today with more insurance than most health care providers performing surgery in the state of Texas,” Lyons said. “So you can get a judgment but it’s not worth the paper that it’s printed on.”

Environmentalists say that turning the border fence into a continuous 40-foot concrete wall would make the bad situation for wildlife only worse.