Residents experiencing flooding on Thursday similar to 2025’s catastrophic July 4 event describe a new sense of preparedness but the same intense anxieties.
Stories by Texas Tribune fellows
The Texas Tribune welcomes a group of student fellows into our newsroom each spring, summer and fall. Here is a sampling of their work. Learn more about the fellowship program here.
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Houston ICE Shooting
“ICE is everywhere”: In Houston, fear and grief permeate Latino neighborhoods after fatal shooting
As Latino and immigrant communities mourn the death of a Houston man, undocumented neighbors remain in hiding for fear of being next.
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Demographics
Called to ministry, Latina leaders are reshaping the United Methodist Church in Texas
A handful of women provide one answer to years of schism and decline in the denomination.
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Houston ICE Shooting
Days after fatal ICE shooting, Texas GOP leaders remain silent about calls for independent probes
Almost none of the state’s major Republican officials have weighed in on the killing of a Houston man by federal agents, and U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia of Houston said she had not spoken with Gov. Greg Abbott.
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Houston ICE Shooting
Houston Democrats demand feds release footage of ICE agent fatally shooting migrant
Four members of Congress demand that ICE and Homeland Security release evidence supporting its claims that an ICE agent shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in self-defense.
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Houston ICE Shooting
Son of man killed by ICE agent calls for investigation, says “My father would have complied.”
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s son said his father would not have tried to flee a law enforcement stop. Local leaders say they’ve received little information from federal officials about the shooting.
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Health care
Four years after Dobbs, Texas abortion-rights advocates struggle to break through in Washington
Just 2% of Texas voters call abortion the state’s most pressing problem. Advocates are reframing the issue as one of reproductive healthcare that affects families’ pocketbooks.
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Data Centers in Texas
Texas leads nation in proposed power plants for data centers, which would emit large amounts of greenhouse gases
Nearly half of the power plants planned to supply electricity for data centers would be in Texas. Experts warn they will emit significant pollution that could harm the health of communities nearby.
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Data Centers in Texas
San Marcos becomes the first Texas city to ban data centers, testing its local control
As Texas counties have faced hurdles to curb the rapid growth of data center developments, cities could have more success with banning them through their zoning laws, land experts say.
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Immigration
Japanese internment survivors, faith leaders demand closure of South Texas ICE detention center
Completing a pilgrimage from a World War II internment camp in Crystal City, activists said history is repeating itself with family detentions at the Dilley facility.
