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2024 in Photos: The Best Photos Told the Stories of Texas in 2024

2024 in photos goes through Texas Tribune’s biggest stories of the year and the photographs that helped tell them.

2024 in photos by Texas Tribune’s photography department. Beautiful images!


JANUARY

This town wants to be named the quinceañera capital of Texas

This West Texas town has a lot of money in the bank. Why can’t it pick up its trash?

“The most hated people in Gunter”: How the government of this North Texas town broke apart

Uvalde victims’ families get an official acknowledgement of botched shooting response — but some want criminal charges

In Eagle Pass, a tense border standoff between Texas and the federal government is reaching a crescendo

Maverick county residents mike garcia, left, and his daughter amerika garcia grewal, right, at shelby park in eagle pass. The two have different political beliefs but are both alarmed at gov. Greg abbott's tactics on the border.
Maverick county residents mike garcia, left, and his daughter amerika garcia grewal, right, at shelby park in eagle pass. The two have different political beliefs but are both alarmed at gov. Greg abbott’s tactics on the border. Credit: eddie gaspar/the texas tribune

FEBRUARY

House Speaker Dade Phelan, enemy of the far-right, faces toughest reelection yet

Despite mounting doubts about his guilt, Ivan Cantu running out of time to avoid Texas’ death chamber

These three “bandidas” are changing the face of Texas barbecue

The Panhandle Wildfires 

March

With Texas births rising post-Roe, disability advocates say child services need bolstering

Neglected and exposed: Toxic air lingers in a Texas Latino community, revealing failures in state’s air monitoring system

Taking a cue from the pews, Texas churches expanding mental health services

APRIL

Years ago, Texas hustled to get kids on state health care. Now it’s kicking them off.

PHOTOS: Clouds break just in time for many in Texas to view eclipse

South Texas farmers are in peril as the Rio Grande Valley runs dry — again

Texas politics leave transgender foster youth isolated — during and after life in state care

University of Texas at Austin Protests 

MAY

Mangroves, expanding with the warming climate, are re-shaping the Texas coast

The government wants to buy their flood-prone homes. But these Texans aren’t moving.

At Texas GOP convention, Republicans call for spiritual warfare

JUNE

How a chance meeting helped Texas become the nation’s top beekeeping state

Unchecked growth around Big Bend sparks debate over water — a prelude for Texas 

JULY

As the Rio Grande runs dry, South Texas cities look to alternatives for water

San Antonio church leaders train to serve as mental health counselors 

AUGUST

Texas’ overcrowded and understaffed jails send people awaiting trial to other counties and states

Left: a room where the personal items of inmates are stored at the harris county joint processing center. Right: a sheriff's officer drops off his belongings outside of the harris county detention center in houston.
Left: a room where the personal items of inmates are stored at the harris county joint processing center. Right: a sheriff’s officer drops off his belongings outside of the harris county detention center in houston. Credit: mark felix for the texas tribune
Sorcha costigan holds up jess hampton’s army jacket in the bedroom of her home on aug. 10, 2024 in rosevine. “the goal is to get him out of jail, so he and i can both work on fighting this from the outside and get his name cleared,” costigan said.
Sorcha costigan holds up jess hampton’s army jacket in the bedroom of her home on aug. 10, 2024 in rosevine. “the goal is to get him out of jail, so he and i can both work on fighting this from the outside and get his name cleared,” costigan said. Credit: hope mora for the texas tribune
Inmates rest on their bunks on june 4, 2024 in the trinity county jail in groveton.
Inmates rest on their bunks on june 4, 2024 in the trinity county jail in groveton. Credit: mark felix for the texas tribune

When Texas jail standards push inmates to lockups in other states, oversight doesn’t follow

In a North Texas House race, two Asian candidates campaign on their version of the American Dream

Dfw chinatown in richardson on aug. 19, 2024. The mall is in state house district 112, a largely suburban north texas district where democrat averie bishop is challenging republican incumbent angie chen button.
Dfw chinatown in richardson on aug. 19, 2024. The mall is in state house district 112, a largely suburban north texas district where democrat averie bishop is challenging republican incumbent angie chen button. Credit: desiree rios for the texas tribune

The oil industry is booming. This West Texas small business worries it’s been left behind. 

Odessa is still healing five years after a mass shooting

SEPTEMBER

What Texas can learn from Italy’s big bet on tiny community health homes

Cardiologist paolo pattoneri runs into several of his patients that see him at the community health clinic in san secondo parmense outside parma, italy.
Cardiologist paolo pattoneri runs into several of his patients that see him at the community health clinic in san secondo parmense outside parma, italy. Credit: margherita mirabella for the texas tribune

Many Americans say immigration is out of control, but 24 hours on the Texas-Mexico border showed a new reality. Will it last?

Bernie Sanders tells Texas progressives to back Harris, says Allred win would “make all the difference”

OCTOBER

How a school voucher supporter won in a Texas House district with almost no private schools

Colin Allred, Ted Cruz blast each other as “extreme,” throw jabs on border and abortion in Senate debate

Delta-8 hemp and Texas medical marijuana industries to face off in the upcoming legislative session

NOVEMBER

Election Day

DECEMBER

Texas farmers say sewage-based fertilizer tainted with “forever chemicals” poisoned their land and killed their livestock

Handshakes, murals and ministry: A reopened Texas prison focuses on rehabilitation 

As landowners resist, Texas’ border wall is fragmented and built in remote areas

This article in this post was originally published on the Texas Tribune website and parts of it are republished here, with permission under a Creative Commons license.

 

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