Eminent Domain

When David Acevedo attended a meeting with officials from the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers in Webb County last month, he thought he would come away with…

Charles Chaney Jr. has Utopia on his mind. The Texas City resident is a month away from retirement, and Utopia is the name of the scenic Hill Country...

High-speed rail developers have been eyeing a 240-mile stretch of mostly rural land sandwiched between the urban hubs of Dallas and Houston for years.…

A decade ago, dozens of Texas landowners fought the federal government's efforts to build a wall on their land. Those battles are beginning again as new walls are planned for the Rio Grande Valley.

A public meeting Tuesday on a planned natural gas pipeline in Central Texas often felt more like a protest, as Hays County residents shared concerns...

A fight over a pipeline is never only about the pipeline. It’s about the environment, property rights, public safety and a community’s sense of itself....

If you want to cook up a battle over private property rights in Texas, here’s the recipe: Take a handful of sprawling cities and growing populations...

The government has the power to seize land from citizens to build things like schools, roads and border walls although it is required to fairly compensate…

Plans continue for a bullet train that would connect Dallas to Houston in just 90 minutes. While residents and officials in these big cities welcome…

Another person has died following the crash of a pickup truck overloaded with illegal immigrants in South Texas.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement…

By Andy Uhler, KUThttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kera/local-kera-991307.mp3Austin, TX – Right now early voters are considering 10…