Brownfield News

Halliburton is currently in negotiations with the Brownfield Industrial Development Corp. and several taxing entities for incentives and abatements to move from its current location on the southwest side of town to a 100-acre site north of Brownfield.

"Weddings Through the Decades" - a temporary exhibit that opened to the public on Tuesday, June 4 - features 12 mannequins dressed in wedding or attendant gowns that were worn by brides and wedding attendants as early as 1880 and as late as the 1970s.

Four men who served time at a West Texas minimum security unit have been arrested on manslaughter charges in the fatal beating of another inmate.

Taking a look at unemployment numbers in three communities on the South Plains, Hale County's numbers have jumped following the idling of Plainview's Cargill meat-processing plant, the healthy energy industry is keeping Yoakum County's number low and Brownfield's number has dropped.

A Brownfield sixth-grader is headed to Washington, D.C., to represent the South Plains region at the 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee.