A mass overdose event in Austin reveals the state’s backward approach to the ongoing crisis spurred by fentanyl and other super-potent substances.

Last month, we at the Observer officially celebrated our 70 th year of continuous publication. Some 200 supporters gathered ...

A version of this story ran in the November / December 2024 issue. One night last summer, I went out with my wife. Through the restaurant windows, we could see the Uvalde town square: the ...

New Testaments by Dagoberto Gilb (City Lights Books). A longtime chronicler of the working-class Southwest, Gilb had two ...

The top two stories here, investigations of social media nazis and charter schools, were far and away our most-read of the ...

Yes, I am aware that the world today runs largely on TikTok, YouTube, some combination of X and Bluesky, Netflix, and surely some other internet concoctions that I’m not allowed to understand as ...

Craig Garnett has owned the Uvalde Leader-News, the local newspaper, since 1989. He moved to Uvalde in 1982 to begin work with the Leader-News, where his weekly editorials and columns have won ...

Report: Even if the PUC raises power prices, blackouts may be inevitable.

Online readership numbers are at least one tool to figure out what the Observer audience really loved.

Faculty and students are experiencing profound disruption and distress, which starkly contrasts with the arrogant posture and detached demeanor of those perpetrating this harm.