Proposed Texas GOP platform calls for the Bible in schools, electoral changes that would lock Democrats out of statewide office

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Republican Party of Texas delegates voted Saturday on a platform that called for new laws to require the Bible to be taught in public schools and a constitutional amendment th

Never Surrender: More than 4 decades on, metal act Saxon is still running on Hell, Fire & Chaos

For those of a certain generation who like their music hard and heavy, the new wave of British Heavy Metal, or NWOBHM, represents a special era. The late ’70s and early ’80s surge in UK-based upstart metal acts leaned heavily into instrumental virtuosity, hooks, riffs and biker-influenced attire suc

German actress Franka Potente talks 25th anniversary of Run Lola Run, living in Texas as student

German actress Franka Potente said her “whole world opened up” when she traveled from her hometown of Dülmen, Germany, to Texas as a foreign exchange student circa 1990. She attended Humble High School northeast of Houston for her entire junior year. “I was a Humble Wildcat!” Potente, 49, told the C

Texans are falling behind on their light bills — especially during extreme heat

Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. MIDLAND — Mary Ann Estrella sat on a rented couch last November and ate, by candlelight, her Thanksgiving Dinner: a bologna s