The red-level air quality index (AQI) category—covering values from 151 to 200—means the air is unhealthy for everyone, not ...

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Trent Day, Aghorn Operations Inc. and Kodiak Roustabout Inc. all entered plea deals in relation to the 2019 death of an ...

More than five years after a deadly gas leak claimed the lives of Jacob and Natalee Dean, three parties, an oilfield company, ...

ECISD police have arrested three Odessa High School students for their part in an afternoon incident that resulted in a ...

A West Texas oil executive will go to prison for violating laws meant to protect workers — actions that led to the deaths of a worker and his wife in 2019. Trent Day, vice ...

An 18-year-old and two minors were arrested after a reported weapon on campus triggered emergency lockdown protocol.

Buffalo Springs Lake: This particular spot is located roughly 2 hours away from Odessa in Lubbock. Particularly popular in ...

The city of Odessa is figuring out how to solve this problem. Odessans are telling the city that dumpsters are being filled ...

It's easy for natives or even visitors to take Texas' vastness for granted. Thankfully, director Wim Wenders doesn't.

We’ve created several data-driven stories and databases on topics including weather and climate, politics, education, sports and growth in Texas ... Scroll down for a map of where each homicide ...