American homeowners spend 26% of their income on house costs. Iowa is the lowest at 19%, then West Virginia, Kansas, and ...

West Texas’s rugged deserts and mountainous landscapes ... Look for Guadalupe penstemon, New Mexico thistle, and Torrey’s yucca blooming along rocky slopes and dry washes.

Twenty years ago, the metro Phoenix suburb of Mesa didn't have an Asian District. Then, the transformation of an abandoned ...

This section of West Texas is Dark Sky-certified and so far south you’re ... in this biodiverse park known for its namesake, ...

This section of West Texas is Dark Sky-certified and so far ... in this biodiverse park known for its namesake, a Yucca plant that grows treelike with arms reaching skyward. Hiking, rock climbing ...

Salk vaccine recalled in west: The government banned use of the Salk polio vaccine produced by Cutter Laboratories of ...

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) warned that because the Commission has disregarded Yucca Mountain, ISP’s facility could “become the permanent solution” for the nation ...

The Tamaulipan thorn forest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Restoring even a fraction of ...

Installation view of 2025 Nasher Prize Laureate Otobong Nkanga: Each Seed a Body, Nasher Sculpture ... More Center, Dallas, Texas, April 5, 2025 – August 17, 2025. Crawling or kneeling to fully ...

McAllen, about an hour to the west, has enlisted the help of a local thorn forest ... Dale named some of the 40 or so species now thriving in the south Texas sun: eupatorium, yucca, purple sage, ...