Life on the Fringes: Counting San Antonio's homeless encampments

Volunteers in fluorescent green vests crawled down steep, rain-slicked embankments in Southeast San Antonio just before sunrise. Their flashlights were trained on a man at the bottom of the drainage culvert who pushed a torrent of water around with a broom. The long stretch of ditch parallel to Comm

Show by San Antonio artist Guillermina Zabala reflects on womanhood, aging, identity

Before Europeans colonized South Texas, the Payaya people, a Coahuiltecan group of Native Americans, lived in the valley around the San Antonio River Valley, or the Yanaguana River, as they referred to it. "Ahāuh: Mi Cuerpo," the first word of which means "body" in Coahuiltecan, is a dynamic exhibit

Mexico pledges to send 10,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to stop asylum seekers, fentanyl

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed Monday to send 10,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in an eleventh-hour bid to avoid Trump's proposed 25% tariffs on goods imported from her country. The Mexican National Guard personnel would be stationed along the border in a purported effort to preven

Two more state employees fired after accessing Texans’ private information

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Two more employees from the state Health and Human Services Commission have been fired for accessing the private information of Texans seeking public assistance in the state’s