KXAN Investigates
Listen to KXAN’s investigative podcast, highlighting some of our award-winning team’s latest reports exposing corruption, safety concerns and system failures across Texas. We also feature audio versions of our weekly “Inside the Investigation” discussion with the journalists working on those stories.
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Friday Mar 21, 2025
Friday Mar 21, 2025
After a year-long KXAN investigation into safety gaps at hospitals across Texas, lawmakers are hearing testimony from the team behind the reporting. This week on Inside the Investigation, KXAN Investigator Matt Grant explains the momentum behind a bill that would require safety bollards at nearly every hospital in the state and why one hospital advocacy group doesn’t want to see it pass.
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
For months, President Trump’s administration has touted plans to boost the country’s energy supply, pushing toward what it calls a “golden era of American energy dominance.” One step needed, they say, is prioritizing the development of new energy technology like cold fusion and next generation nuclear reactors, but KXAN Senior Science Reporter Eric Henrikson found some experts warning recent funding cuts are putting that plan in jeopardy.
Friday Mar 14, 2025
Friday Mar 14, 2025
A Texas senator is taking action after a KXAN investigation revealed that no state agency is tracking the thousands of students school districts send to court over absences. This week on Inside the Investigation, we explain how the proposed legislation could shed light on what is happening in Texas’ truancy courts.
Wednesday Mar 12, 2025
Wednesday Mar 12, 2025
KXAN Investigates is a nationally-recognized, award-winning team of journalists – the largest investigative unit in Central Texas. The team has been honored with the Investigative Reporters & Editors Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, six National Edward R. Murrow Awards, six National Headliner Awards and the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award. We tackle stories that hold your leaders accountable and make your communities safer. Scroll down to learn more about each team member and some of our latest results.