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YA author Jonny Garza Villa says the book examines learning to deal family legacy, youthful romance and loss through the competitive world of high school mariachi.

Shipbuilders are pursuing a variety of measures to find more workers, including a marketing partnership with Major League Baseball.

A listener wanted to know the secret behind the beautiful displays of wildflowers along the highway. She’s had trouble growing them in her backyard.

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.

In the beginning, relatives of the people buried in El Cementerio del Barrio de los Lipanes hoped to protect the Lipan Apache burial ground from further decay. Three years later,...

The evocative world of mariachi music is the perfect setting for the new novel “Canto Contigo.” We’ll hear from author Jonny Garza Villa.

How will the jobs of tomorrow look different? We’re taking a look at some of Texas’ most prominent industries and providing a glimpse at where they’re headed.

In the 1950s, 10% of American workers did agriculture work. Today, it’s less than 1%.

75 Texas counties declined in population between 2022 and 2023.

“You have to be able to adapt and adjust and pivot,” says college counselor Tara Miller.

Federal and state officials say making computer chips in this country is vital to national security and the supply chain. And chipmakers are responding with billions in investment.

Experts say many oil and gas workers have transferable skills for new energy jobs.

Song from the 80s recalls an astronaut circling the planet and reveling in its beauty from space.

An overwhelming majority of companies that took part in the trial stuck with the shorter work week.

The East Texas country singer’s new single, “Long Time Comin,'” is out on streaming platforms today.

Local elections can include city council seats and school board candidates.

The US Senate tossed impeachment articles against the Homeland Security Secretary on Wednesday.

Anything south of Downtown Dallas is considered a book desert — meaning most families have fewer than 10 books in their homes. Whose Books in Oak Cliff is working to...

Local elections are scheduled in Texas for May 4, with early voting beginning on Monday.

Consumer Reports looked at seven years of data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to determine the level of risk types of produce have from pesticide residue.

The United Musicians and Allied Workers is one group organizing in places like Austin to “take power back” in the music industry.

The spiny rodent’s recovery after being found badly burned from wildfires that scorched the region has garnered her a global audience.

Media Matters for America published information about advertising that appeared near pro-Nazi posts on the social platform. Musk and Paxton say the goal was to harm the social media site’s...

The plaintiffs said their land didn’t flood before a nearby highway was remodeled.

Rumors of mismanagement swirled online after a weather cancellation, but disabled festival goers clocked issues from the start.

An ocelot killed by a car in 2021 is confirmed to be genetically different from the known populations of ocelots in deep South Texas, meaning more of the endangered wild...

House Bill 900 requires books sold in the state be rated for sexual content by the book seller, similar to how Hollywood rates movies.

About 40,000 people traveled hours to attend the Texas Eclipse Festival in Burnet – only to have it shut down early over concerns about severe weather. The cancellation, and rumors...

Although it’s often called a “sanctuary city,” the Colorado capitol is hoping to cut spending on migrant services.

More students are choosing trade schools and graduating this past year than in any of the past 10 years, according to a study.