Parts of Texas on Thursday will feel hotter than the Sahara Desert, as a heat dome over the region sends temperatures ...

At times, the temperatures will be hotter than Death Valley, California and Ouadane, Mauritania in the Sahara Desert. This ...

The calendar only says May, but it's a figurative inferno in Central Texas this week with potentially historic levels of ...

The Texas-Mexico border is scorching under a record-setting heat wave, with temperatures soaring past 100 degrees, making it ...

Shannon Sims, a Texan and longtime contributor to the Travel section, is based in Houston. Deep in the high desert of Far West Texas, an hour’s drive from the Mexican border, sits a little jewel ...

The town is pretty quiet on Mondays and Tuesdays ... books about the Chihuahuan Desert, West Texas, and Northern Mexico—but there’s plenty else to discover. The iconic Judd and Chinati ...

Commuters protect themselves from the sun in downtown Houston on Tuesday. (Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspap / Yi-Chin Lee) ...