Dianna Wray

Dianna Wray is a nationally award-winning journalist. Born and raised in Houston, she writes about everything from NASA to oil to horse races.
Latest Stories
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2 years ago | Breaking News
Former President George Herbert Walker Bush died Friday night in Houston, the city where years before he began his political career. His death follows that of his wife Barbara who died in April. He was 94 years old. Accolades poured in almost imme...
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3 years ago | Politicians
Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller has a challenger for the Republican primary, which makes all the sense in the world when you think about it. Miller has cut a rather, shall we say, interesting figure on the political stage since he was elected ...
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3 years ago | NASA
It's been 30 years since NASA scientists launched the famed Golden Records — described by NASA as a mixed tape "intended to communicate the story of our world to extraterrestrials" — on Voyager spacecrafts 1 and 2, and while aliens have had the op...
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3 years ago | Courts
At this point it's not exactly a surprise that Serkan Golge, a 37-year-old physicist and U.S.-Turkish dual citizen who has been held in Turkey for more than a year on charges of his alleged involvement in the failed coup last year, was once again ...
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3 years ago | Courts
For years private oyster leaseholders have been duking it out in court over whether one family had the right to lease and seize control over a massive tract of oyster reefs in Galveston Bay with Sustainable Texas Oyster Resource Management (STORM)...
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3 years ago | Longform
It was when the Texas Supreme Court justices reversed themselves on benefits to same-sex partners, that Harris County District Judge Steven Kirkland decided he'd had enough. Just the year before those exact same nine judges had upheld a ruling tha...