On the first day of Texas’ 2025 legislative session, the seeds of the state’s largest measles outbreak in 30 years may already have been taking root. The Texas Department of State Health Services announced the first two measles cases in West Texas’ Gaines County on Jan.

The Texas health department reported 422 cases of measles in the state on Tuesday, an increase from 400 in its previous count on March 28, as the United States battles one of the largest outbreaks of the disease in the past decade.

The measles outbreak in west Texas continues to spread across the Lone Star State and has now expanded into the state's central region.

The Texas Department of State Health Services reported 22 new measles cases in connection with a West Texas measles outbreak Tuesday. The agency reported cases in two Central Texas counties that hadn't previously reported cases, Brown and Erath counties. Tuesday's update brings the total number of cases since January to 422.

GAINES COUNTY, Texas (KCBD) - A Seminole woman has died in a crash that happened in Gaines County on Thursday morning.

A 32-year-old Seminole woman died in a three-vehicle crash in Gaines County, Texas. The incident is under investigation.

GAINES COUNTY, Texas — A Seminole woman is dead after a three-vehicle crash in Gaines County Thursday morning, according to a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) crash report. DPS said the accident happened when a 2022 Jeep Wrangler driven by Christina Krahn Loeppky ,32, of Seminole was traveling southwest on Farm to Market 181.

The Texas parents of an unvaccinated 6-year-old girl who died from measles are urging others not to vaccinate.

Measles cases in Texas rose to 400 as the U.S. total reached almost 500 amid the worsening outbreak, officials have said.