James Harker

February 6, 2025

It's a new year, and Donald Trump will be the president for the next 4 years (2025-2029). This was decided on Election Day (November 5). Donald Trump beat out Kamala Harris...

Isabelle Martin, Staffer

April 5, 2024

Austin was given a taste of the coming winter at the end of October this year, a cold front with temperatures coming down from the upper 70s and into the 30s and 40s.  For...

Lucas Janssen, Staff

February 9, 2023

On Tuesday, January 31st all RRISD schools were canceled until Monday, February 6th. The weather left many people without power and without trees. Travis Shriner (6)...

Jasmine Choi, Reporter

April 7, 2022

African Forest Elephants African forest elephants live in dense tropical forests in West and Central Africa. They feed on leaves, grasses, seeds, fruit, and tree bark. Since...

Divya Shankar, Reporter

April 7, 2022

The Russo-Ukrainian war is a currently occurring war that is not being taken seriously enough in the United States. Because of differing perspectives and a lack of empathy,...

Wyatt O'Quinn, Reporter

April 6, 2022

In today's world, there are lots of bad things happening. But of the small number of good things happening, Tigers are regaining their population in China. Just a century...

Lily Wang, Reporter

April 5, 2022

In the year 2022, April has just come around. Spring is in the air, but it's not quite summertime yet. In most parts of the world, the climate is perfectly normal for...

Ivan Schere, Reporter

March 29, 2022

With the COVID vaccines, booster shots, and dropping cases, is COVID basically gone? The answer: No, not really. COVID cases have been severely dropping but COVID is not...

Sunwoo Choi, Reporter

March 10, 2022

It's no surprise that climate change is heating up the Earth. Yet many don't realize that winter storms are also a by product of the greenhouse effect. North America has been...

Hrishi Satish, Reporter

March 10, 2022

The province of West Sumatra in Indonesia was ravaged by a magnitude 6.2 earthquake in late February 2022. This is the second major natural disaster to attack the nation this...

Ivan Schere, Reporter

February 23, 2022

Studies have shown that there is a sixth sense. But first, there are some senses that are subcategories of other senses, such as temperature. The sixth sense is quite...

Divya Shankar, Reporter

January 13, 2022

From childhood, your brain has been actively accumulating memories as you continue to make new experiences.  As you attend school, your brain begins storing what you've learned,...

Hrishi Satish, Reporter

January 10, 2022

When I ask you where camels come from, what is the first place you think of? Chances are, you probably thought of the desert. But as archeology has found, they come from a...

Ivan Schere, Reporter

January 6, 2022

You slap your arm after you feel a slight stinging sensation. You check, and you have your own blood and a mosquito's flattened body on your hand. But do you know how mosquitoes...