Albany News

Tiffany Nerissa Hardin and Kyle Adam Willey were united in marriage October 11, 2008 in an outdoor western wedding at the Stasney Cook Ranch in Albany, TX.

The three McCullars of the 4M Ranch in Baird are among more than 300 non-pro riders in the National Cutting Horse Association Futurity under way through Dec.

When you spend enough time studying and enjoying works of art, inevitably an individual painting, sculpture or photograph will take on personal, almost totemic, significance.

As an Albany High School junior who lives 30 minutes away from Abilene, the new "Family Friendly @5" hours at the mall, while I believe were made with good intentions, are extremely inconvenient to out-of-town ...

YAHOO! Around the Big Country 10.30.08 Wednesday, October 29, 2008 ALBANY Dia de los Muertos: The second annual Dia de los Muertos Family Festival will be 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at The Old Jail Art Center ...

On most days, the sketchy ruins of stone buildings at old Fort Griffin will not offer many details of 19th-Century life in this rugged and hilly country 15 miles north of Albany.

The winds of change soon may blow through the Department of Agriculture and Environmental Science at ACU through a new partnership with Juhl Wind Energy.

Big Country consumers are being urged to be vigilant after a rash of complaints about a scam in which people were asked to hand over personal banking and credit card information.

Author John DeMers certainly has the credentials to write a book on Texas barbecue, which he has done .

Donna Merkt, the new Curator of Education at Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, wants to paint broad strokes between area school districts and the museum.

Well, we finally got enough concentrated rainfall across Big Country counties to scatter -- and we're talking thoroughly scatter -- the local dove population.

The Abilene Convention and Visitors Bureau encourages you to jump aboard for the Butterfield & Trails West Tour! We invite you to experience the exhilaration of riding along the trail traveled by the ...

Flexible schedule not for everyone Many area schools have considered the Optional Flexible Year Program but are not involved for 2008-09 for a variety of reasons.

Reporter-News photo by Thomas Metthe Brook Davis paints a porcelain painting at her home in Albany on Friday.

ALBANY, Texas - Here's a six-pack of silver bullets that don't have anything to do with alcohol or a Rocky Mountain high: "Genius is 3 percent inspiration and 97 percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison "Life is ...

Schools are rated exemplary, recognized, acceptable and unacceptable. Abilene ISD : Acceptable Abilene High School: Acceptable Cooper High School: Acceptable Woodson Center for Excellence : Acceptable Clack ...

Encourage your pastor to tell us the upcoming week's sermon topic. It's FREE, and it's open to churches throughout the Big Country.

Charles Hill Drilling Inc. , a subsidiary of Knight Energy Corp. , Irving, Texas, has acquired two drilling rigs and related assets from Albany, Texas-based Sequoia Fossil Fuels Inc.

I am writing this to say thank you to the folks of Albany, both present and past, for reliving and presenting their history and memories to all the people far and wide who have had the extremely good fortune to ...

Activities: History of the ranch, horse training, horse shoeing demonstration, cow working, cow dog demonstration and meal with the cowboys.