Peter Holley

The clash between popular piñata shops and opportunistic developers has resurfaced in a historic Austin neighborhood.

As they wait for CenterPoint to restore electricity, residents in Kingwood, which has suffered twelve days of outages, say hope is waning.

The owner says it's impossible for minors to buy bullets from the devices. Critics say they feel like “something out of a dystopian novel.”

As climate change worsens, the dangers posed by hurricanes aren’t limited to high winds and flooding. Texans will also face the dangers of extreme heat.

They know you think they’re members of a personality cult and that their $100,000 truck looks like it was designed by a drunk toddler. They’ve seen the stories about their vehicles getting coal-rolled or their stainless steel bodies targeted by vandals. They also know that somehow—during a period in American history so polarized that elected leaders are calling for a “national divorce”—the very sight of their futuristic-looking truck is enough to unite some progressive-leaning Americans and stau…

When they learned that Elon Musk had purchased 280 acres of land a short drive from their organic farm, it seemed like a miracle. For more than a decade, husband and wife Skip Connett and Erin Flynn had worked to turn Wilbarger Bend, a rural agricultural area located in a lush floodplain along the Colorado River about a half-hour drive southeast of downtown Austin, into a community-based farming hub like others around the country. Though they’d enjoyed some success over their five years of worki…

Outside of an incoming hurricane, few threats discourage Texans from plunging into the Gulf of Mexico more than the dangerous fecal contamination frequently reported along our coastline. Last year a widely publicized study from Environment America, an advocacy group that focuses on pollution, revealed that 90 percent of Texas beaches exposed swimmers to at least one day of potentially unsafe fecal contamination—well above the national average of 55 percent. Does that mean you should burn you…

The smiling, geriatric face, plastered upon a twenty-foot-tall billboard, looms above a four-lane roadway on the edge of Sweetwater, Texas, a dusty 10,000-person town an hour west of Abilene. To the right of the cheerful visage, a desperate message—part personal ad and part hostage-negotiation note—beckons drivers down a romantic rabbit hole in large block letters: LONELY MALECAN RELOCATESWEETWATERSEEKS FEMALE MARRIAGE MINDED. ENJOY KARAOKE. Like the mysterious monolith that appeared in…

In the hours before the sky turns dark on the afternoon of April 8, highways crisscrossing the Texas Hill Country, the scenic landscape west of Austin, are expected to turn into parking lots. A trip that might normally take an hour and a half could, because of traffic congestion, suddenly require eleven hours of driving. As rural towns are overwhelmed by travelers, local officials anticipate some problems—vehicles are expected to run out of gas, visitors could run out of food and water, and some…

A few days after the largest wildfire in Texas history had torn through Hemphill County, the locals in Canadian—the charming Panhandle town a hundred miles northeast of Amarillo—all seemed to understand something that outsiders like myself could not: no matter how many journalistic overtures were made, no matter how many pleasantries included, area ranchers, among the hardest hit by the fires, were not going to talk about their ordeal—at least not yet, anyway. Initially, this recurring messag…