EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The City of El Paso is inviting the community to participate in this year’s virtual gift-giving tree by choosing a gift for a child, senior, or veteran…
Yard Barker – College football’s most important people for Week 12
College football is entering its most crucial stretch of games, meaning the spotlight will narrow to feature a few major characters. Read: Read More
KTSM News – City to host free drive-thru flu shot event this Saturday
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The City of El Paso’s Department of Public Health is partnering up with the El Paso Fire Department to host a free drive-thru flu vaccination clinic this…
Texas Monthly – Texas names new higher education chief
Wynn Rosser will be in charge of guiding the state’s postsecondary education policies. He currently leads a foundation focused on rural East Texas and previously worked at Texas A&M. Read: Read More
Texas Monthly – Texas’ uneven population boom is creating ghost towns in many rural counties
Local leaders and rural revitalization experts say Texas’ smallest towns can survive — despite a shift to urban and suburban counties — but it will take investments. Read: Read More
Texas Monthly – Eight Texas Animal Webcams to Alleviate Your Existential Dread
Moo Deng this, Moo Deng that. Texas has its own celebrity pygmy hippo now, not to mention many live video streams of animals that aren’t asleep when we’re all awake. I write…
Texas Monthly – New Hope to Combat Climate Change—From an Oil Giant?
I am standing atop an eighty-foot-tall synthetic lung made of metal and plastic. In its scale and ambition, it’s unlike anything else in Texas, or the Western Hemisphere, for that matter. Its…
Texas Monthly – Welcome to Prime Kestrel-Watching Time in Texas
Each month, we get to know one of the state’s many wonderful and quirky critters. Latin name: Falco sparveriusSize: 8 to 12 inches long; wingspan is 20 to 24 inchesTexas habitat: Statewide North America’s…
Texas Monthly – Luling Isn’t as Quaint as It Seems
There are always indicators when a small Texas town is destined for something great. Duck confit pops up on a restaurant menu. A technology start-up moves in. And, at least in the…
Texas Monthly – A Dallas Taqueria Settles Into Life After Viral Fame
In 2017, Gustavo De Los Rios had a brush with death. The Monterrey, Mexico, native had recently spent close to twenty years working in the hospitality industry, doing everything from being a…