If chickens didn’t exist, Elon Musk would have to invent them. Think about it. Chickens are the Swiss Army knives of the food pantry. Imagine the discussion around the table at The Creator’s Create-A-Creature Corporation. “OK, team. The boss wants us to come up with some type of magical food source ...

Del Rio native Radney Foster never expected to be a professional musician. “I played in bands in high school and in college and wrote songs, but you know, real people didn’t do that for a living,” Foster said. “I only expected to go finish college and go to law school and go home and take over my fa...

Editor’s note: The inaugural Fredericksburg Book Festival will host 11 well known and accomplished adult and children’s authors – all from Texas – on Saturday, Jan. 18, and the Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post has introduced each one the past few months. The day of the event will be filled with in...

Outdoors On Edge The year ahead will be a busy one for me and this column. I have several trips planned, ideas to explore, people to interview, and hi...

At right, Brielle Thompson, age 9, of Fredericksburg, navigates her string and hook along the banks of Live Oak Creek which runs through Lady Bird Joh...

After a decade of principled resistance, I’ve finally let an unwelcome visitor inside my house. “Alexa, are you turned on?” I know, I know. I fought a...