DALLAS — Buffalo chicken in a flapjack and fried bubblegum are the judges’ top picks for the best and most creative foods that will be available this year at the State Fair of Texas. The buffalo...

TUCSON, Ariz. — U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has returned to Houston following a brief weekend visit to Arizona. She arrived in Tucson Friday evening with her husband, retired astronaut and Navy...

NEW ORLEANS — Federal officials say offshore oil and gas workers in the Gulf of Mexico are going back to platforms and rigs that had been evacuated because of Tropical Storm Lee. The Bureau of Ocean...

While the Longhorns kicked the Rice Owls’ cans on the football field, student volunteers collected the cans tailgaters left around campus Saturday afternoon. The second year of Longhorn Recycling...

Fires raged across Central Texas this weekend, affecting the Pflugerville, Bastrop County, Travis County and Hays County areas. Austin mayor Lee Leffingwell said despite success in controlling fires in...

Students and professors gathered Friday to learn how Scots, English, Welsh and particularly Irish played a role in shaping the history of Texas. Marian J. Barber, associate director of the National History...

Children of immigrants living in America face separate language barrier and racism challenges than their parents did, a UT professor said last week. Part of a seminar series in the Department of Human...

WASHINGTON — The dismal U.S. job market, which has intensified fears of another recession, may be even worse than the unemployment numbers suggest. The shockwaves from the Labor Department report...

TRIPOLI, Libya — Water started flowing again in several areas of Tripoli on Monday, putting an end to an outage of more than a week that rebels blamed on sabotage by retreating Moammar Gadhafi loyalists. Tripoli’s...

DETROIT — President Barack Obama used a boisterous Labor Day rally to put congressional Republicans on the spot, challenging them to place the country’s interests above all else and vote to...

Interstate Highway 35 from State Highway 71 to U.S. Highway 183 is the fourth-most congested roadway in the state, according to a Texas Department of Transportation list released last week. Because of...

Contrary to what many Austinites may believe about the people they share the roads with, a recent report by Allstate Insurance Co. showed large improvement in quality of Austin drivers. According to the...