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West Texas A&M University saw an overall increase across the board in undergraduate students for the Fall 2024 semester, ...

Three generations of 1 West Texas/Panhandle family are part of a group dedicated to keeping the lights on. Here's the linemen ...

GATESVILLE, Texas (KWTX) - The process of getting a natural gas pipeline to stretch from west Texas to Lake Charles ...

Dr. Eiman Jahangir is reaching for the stars, finally getting his space opportunity on Blue Origin's New Shepard.

But when the Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin flight lifts off from West Texas at 8 a.m. Thursday ... though — NASA chose him to do a second application. And then a weeklong round of interviews ...

The U.S. Geological Survey received more than 1,800 reports of shaking throughout West Texas and as far away as Fort Worth (282 miles east) and Austin (322 miles southeast). Most of the reports ...

Normally sunny with plenty of heat, West Texas has been hit with a barrage ... For an automobile, flooding insurance can apply to a wide range of damage caused by rising water levels.

ODESSA — A small plane crashed in a West Texas neighborhood Tuesday, killing the pilot and a passenger and setting off a large fire on the ground that injured a woman, authorities said.

Pastor Dawn Weaks and her co-pastor husband Joe Weaks had just returned to Connection Christian Church in this West Texas city from a weeklong Colorado vacation. In the days they were away ...

When storms tear through the area and power goes out, three generations of one family are part of a network that does its best to keep the lights on across West Texas and the Panhandle.