The recent redistricting of county commissioners court precincts has galvanized progressive organizers heading into 2026.

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She's a death row survivor, but she doesn't think she's really any different from her friends who are still set to die.

The ACLU found official misconduct, perjury, and predominantly white juries to be leading contributors to exonerated death ...

In Van Zandt County, a fight over water rights, government transparency, and land ownership came to a head with a proposed ...

The Trump administration’s bans and airport detentions are derailing the academic dreams of students who carry out important ...

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On a June afternoon in McAllen in 1978, Diana Rivera, posing as a young pregnant woman, walked into the home of a local midwife. At Rivera’s side was a female friend, who was wearing a small, ...

Paul Barrows spends his nights half expecting a late-night call from his son, who is prone to manic late-night walks that leave him lost and disoriented. Barrows’ son, who’s is his thirties and lives ...

Yale College and is an editor and staff writer for the Yale Daily News. He's from a farm in the small town of Wills Point in Van Zandt County.

East Texans are uniting to fight oil waste pits in bucolic areas near the Louisiana line—all run by an operator who’s been cited for dozens of violations, and a worker’s death.

This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent, non-profit news organization. Lawrence Brorman eases his pickup through plowed farmland in ...