Texas News

Get started on that New Year’s resolution with a First Day Hike with the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department.

Flu levels have reached high numbers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

New Year’s Day is the most active holiday for car thefts. NBC 5’s Larry Collins tells us about the increase of car theft in major cities.

Nathaniel’s Custom Hats is Georgetown Square’s most elusive business. The waitlist to get one of Nate Funmaker’s custom hats has more than 300 orders on. It takes the family an entire day to get one hat right, meaning you’ll be waiting close to a year before you finally get your hat.

At least two people were killed and six more injured as several tornadoes touched down in Texas and Mississippi on Saturday, damaging homes and flipping vehicles as the storm system moved east across Alabama early Sunday.

Peyote, a cactus that contains mescaline, a hallucinogen, grows naturally in South Texas and northern Mexico. It is sacred to many Indigenous people, playing a central role in their ceremonies, spiritual practice and medicine.

Drug cartels and kidnapping gangs often use such clandestine body dumping grounds to get rid of the corpses of their victims or rivals.

Nathan Hecht won six reelections and led the court as chief justice for more than a decade. He retires now not because he’s had enough, but because state law requires him to.

The lack of ombudsmen for long-term care facilities is an issue across Texas, but it is acute in the east. Just five people bounce between 48 long-term care facilities in Deep East Texas.

When the No. 5 Texas Longhorns take on the No. 4 Arizona State Sun Devils in the Peach Bowl, they’ll travel without Bevo again.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) in an effort to prevent transgender women from competing in women’s college sports.

A Texas man facing execution did not appear at the State Capitol after two failed attempts by lawmakers to issue a subpoena for his testimony.

 A teacher at a San Antonio-area daycare was killed, and another employee and five toddlers were injured when a parent’s car accelerated into another vehicle in the parking lot, and both vehicles crashed into a play area, authorities said.