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 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 ...

In Texas, there are plenty of Gulf cities to visit, like South Padre Island or Corpus Christi. Southern Living recently praised two beach towns in Texas in its annual "Best of the South" ranking ...

Last summer, over 10,000 people submitted their favorite beach towns in the South. Of the two Texas beach towns that made the list, you can probably name one of them (Hint: it's a popular spring ...

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