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Watching the Hill Country Waters Rise Again
The Guadalupe escaped its banks again. The National Weather Service declared a flash flood emergency through Thursday afternoon in Kerr County, the epicenter of last year’s unprecedented Fourth of J...

Off a Back-Road Texas Highway, an Outsider Artist Builds His Wonderland
Driving along a minor rural highway dotted with cattle operations, about fifty miles east of San Antonio, the weary traveler sees a vision. The Virgin Mary, surrounded by colorful orbs, hovers above t...

Thirty Years Ago, Austin Set Aside Thousands of Acres to Save Endangered Birds. Did It Work?
Fifteen minutes after heading out onto a shrub-covered hillside at Barton Creek Habitat Preserve, in West Austin, a small group of biologists hears what it came for: the rapid twitter of a black-cappe...