ERCOT Asked Texans to Conserve Power as Electric Grid Again Struggled to Keep Up with Demand
A higher than expected amount of plant outages for maintenance created tight conditions for Texas' power grid. It returned to normal late Tuesday evening.
Features
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Environment
Waves of Abandonment
The Permian Basin is ground zero for a billion-dollar surge of zombie oil wells.
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News
A New Group of Sexual Assault Survivors in Texas is Seeking Systemic Reform
“To make change we have to sit in that trauma and feel like it just happened, [revisiting times] we could have been helped by someone, but we were just let down by the system and by others.”
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Civil Rights
In Houston, a Plan to Expand Interstate 45 Encounters Federal Pushback
For years, community groups have been organizing to stop a massive highway expansion. In March, the federal government paused the project, citing serious civil rights concerns.
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Culture
On a Dime
The rules of barrel racing, the only female-dominated rodeo sport, are simple. It’s the execution that’s hard.
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Indigenous Affairs
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Health Care
