In the 21st century, what happens in Texas drives the American narrative.
Texas Standard
is setting a new bar for broadcast news coverage, offering up-to-the-moment coverage of politics, lifestyle and culture, the environment, technology and innovation, and business and the economy – from a Texas perspective – and uncovering stories as they happen and spotting the trends that will shape tomorrow’s headlines.
Hosted by award-winning journalist David Brown, Texas Standard features interviews with researchers, innovators, business leaders, political thinkers and experts – across Texas and around the globe – that reflect a diversity of opinions.
A one-hour daily news magazine, Texas Standard is produced in the state capital in collaboration with KUT Austin,
KERA North Texas,
Houston Public Media and
Texas Public Radio San Antonio, as well as news organizations across Texas, Mexico and the United States.
Michael Minasi/KUT NewsThe cities join a growing list of Texas jurisdictions deprioritizing arrests for four ounces or less of marijuana possession.
CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia CommonsThe band is playing a slew of shows, marking the release of their first album in 26 years, “Rack.”
Mexico owes Texas a certain number of water every five years but says it can’t deliver in a drought.
Emerald ash borers were recently found in five new counties in Texas.
Mike Miles, state-appointed superintendent of Houston ISD, is at the center of the investigation.
The structure would crisscross the state to bring natural gas to a point off Mexico’s Baja California coast.
Disabled patrons at the festival had called for refunds, citing poor accommodations.
Voters cast ballots on pot decriminalization, bonds and school board races.
This year’s picnic will be held in New Jersey and will include guests like Bob Dylan.
How will the jobs of tomorrow look different? We’re taking a look at some of Texas’ most prominent industries and providing a glimpse at where they’re headed.
Rumors of mismanagement swirled online after a weather cancellation, but disabled festival goers clocked issues from the start.
Author Megan Kimble argues that expanding highways only makes traffic congestion worse, while tearing communities apart.
