South Texas

A decade ago as the federal government rushed to construct 60 miles of barrier in the Rio Grande Valley, it entrusted the chief of a little-known local…

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -A surge in production in the Permian Basin of west Texas, already the nation's highestproducing oilfield, is extracting more crude…

This story was originally broadcast on a special episode of the Texas Standard called “The Wall”, an hour-long look at the prospect for an expanded border…

J. Frank Dobie was a folklorist and writer often dubbed "the father of Texas literature." Lonn and Dedie recently went to Oakville, Texas for an event…

The assessment by Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw came during a House Homeland Security and Public Safety meeting in Brownsville,…

On June 1, 1966, the newly-formed farm workers' union based in Rio Grande City voted to strike for higher wages. Lonn Taylor was there. On this edition of…

In the summer of 1966, farmworkers staged a historic march across Texas to protest low wages and poor working conditions. Fifty years later, some of them are telling their stories for the first time.

For this episode of West Texas Talk, recent Sul Ross State University graduate Megan Wilde joins us to talk about her documentary film on the worrisome…

Despite U.S. efforts to staunch the flow, numbers are approaching the crisis of two years ago. U.S. Border Patrol agents say it's diverting resources away from catching drug and human traffickers.

The Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) says the explosion of a 42" natural gas pipeline near the town of Cuero, Texas in June was caused by a "material…