West News

Sometimes, a voluntary best-practices approach to industry self-regulation works best to raise standards and minimize government intrusion.

On the night of the West, Texas explosion, 130 residents from the rest home, just 200 yards from the plant, were rescued.

The West Texas weather is constantly changing and one organization in the South Plains is making sure they're always ready.

Soldiers from the 238th Medevac Company of the New Hampshire National Guard take off from Ft.

A railroad museum in West Texas has left a locomotive behind after being evicted in a rental dispute at a city-operated building.

CBS 7 News Robert Guaderrama rguaderrama@cbs7.com June 17, 2013 MIDLAND, TX- West Texas get ready for a weekend of fun, food and music in the Tall City.

Two months after a fertilizer-mixing plant in West, Texas, exploded, the state fire marshal has identified 16 other such facilities, but he hasn't checked whether they're close to homes and schools the way the facility in West was.

Two months after an explosion that felt like a 2.1 magnitude eathquake in West, TX, volunteers fromm Alamance County are helping out.

Jodi Thomas of Amarillo, who will receive the A. C. Greene Literary Award at the West Texas Book Festival in September, now has six novels in her Harmony series.

The House Committee on Homeland Security and Public Safety met to discuss the deadly fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas.

Monday marks the two-month anniversary of the devastating explosion in the small town of West, Texas, where the clean up process is still ongoing.

Texas Governor Rick Perry is on a "job-poaching" trip to New York . Let's say he "attracts" some businesses to move to his low-wage, low-tax state.

Cotton futures fell for the first time in four sessions on speculation that wet weather in India and Texas will ease a decline in global production.

The Black Angels are doing more than their fair share to ensure the world knows their hometown of Austin, Texas, is the capital city of psychedelic rock.

It was one of the most beautiful caskets Marqee Snokhous had ever seen: a rich cherry-wood tint with an American flag draped over the top.

The West Texas Food Bank wants to make sure children don't go hungry this summer.

Tatum Hubbard CBS 7 News June 16, 2013 This week's Sunday's Child is a beautiful young girl with a sweet spirit.

The paparazzi, glitz and glamour surrounding film festivals worldwide is making room for open-air screenings under a blanket of stars on a West Texas prairie.

CBS 7 News June 16, 2013 Monahans - Helicopters will be hovering around Monahans the next few weeks, and the reason may surprise you.

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