On the first day of February 2003 tragedy fell from the skies across East Texas when the space shuttle Columbia came apart after its heat shield over its left wing failed due to damage suffered during the launch 16 days earlier. A nation watched in stunned horror, as...

For more than 300 years Hemphill and Sabine County served as the overland gateway into the vast expanses of the Lone Star State. Back in the days when Texas was nothing more than a vast empty wilderness on the northern frontier of Spanish territory in the New World,...

No place holds the heart of Texas, and America in general, like a small town. People in the big cities might look down on small town folk with derision as they drive by on their way to somewhere else with a Starbucks® latte in their hand, but it is the people of...

Bastrop offers visitors plenty of fun for everybody. From outdoor activities on the beautiful Colorado River, to shopping and dining in the historic downtown, or browsing through endless art galleries, Bastrop has it all The Colorado River meanders lazily along...