Saxon bringing its heavy metal thunder back to San Antonio next spring

Longtime San Antonio favorite Saxon — one of the foundational bands of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal — will thunder back into town this spring. The long-running act will play the Tobin Center on Friday, March 21, performing its career-defining 1980 album Wheels of Steel in its entirety.

How Texas jails built migrant incarceration

This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook and X. In 1926, the Galveston League of Women Voters wrote to their U.S. senator to express concern over the “dreadful cond

A tuition freeze without more state aid could leave Texas universities strapped

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. When Jason Tomlinson presented a proposed tuition increase to the board of regents at Texas Woman's University earlier this month, he stated the obvious:

After November's disastrous election, Bexar County Democrats elect new chair

The Bexar County Democratic Party elected a new leader, former Air Force Deputy Undersecretary Michelle LoweSolis, in a special election Thursday, the Express-News reports. LoweSolis will replace Chairwoman Monica Alácantara, who resigned days after the Nov. 5 election, which held disaster for Democ