West News

On April 9, 2011, an electrical circuit in an abandoned building in far West Texas shorted out, and the spark turned into a month-long wildfire that scorched 315,000 acres.

Providence Service Corporation of Texas has notified DFPS of its intention to terminate the contract through which it was caring for 1,100 foster children in 60 counties in North and West Texas as part of the state's foster care redesign initiative.

The state will take over direct management of the care and service of about 1,100 foster children after the contractor it had hired canceled its contract.

A grand jury has declined to indict a West Texas police officer who was off-duty when he fatally shot a robbery suspect at restaurant.

Oil prices fell further in Asia on Friday following a sell-off on Wall Street and concerns about unplanned refinery shutdowns in the US Midwest, analysts said.

Tim Dunn, a sociology professor at Salisbury University who spent years teaching in Texas and has written several books about militarization of the border, noted that in 1997 in West Texas, a Marine assigned to work with Border Patrol shot and killed a Latino high school student herding his family's goats.

Virden was riding horses with her father at their home south of Ballinger on Tuesday.

Ernest Schick chips onto the green on the 7th hole at Gus Wortham Park Golf Course Tuesday, June 24, 2014, in Houston.

CLINT -- A small West Texas town could become the site of the largest shelter in the country for unaccompanied children from Central America.

Provided photo Employees with D&R Underground plow and place a new innerduct to carry fiber-optic cable near Masterson last fall.

The Texas Historical Commission's vote on whether to designate the Astrodome as a historical landmark was tabled at Wednesday's meeting.

Texas coach Charlie Strong is giving safety Josh Turner another chance and reinstating him back to the team, a source familiar with the situation said Wednesday.

The Permian Basin shale oil boom has fueled rapid growth in both Odessa and Midland, but it has also made home ownership almost unreachable for those outside the oil industry.

A West Texas jury has sentenced a teenager to 50 years in prison for the fatal beating of an off-duty police officer.

His paintings made news worldwide, but it turns out that former President George W. Bush has been working on another, highly personal project since leaving the White House: He has quietly completed a biography of his father, former President George H.W. Bush.

His paintings made news worldwide, but it turns out that former President George W. Bush has been working on another, highly personal project since leaving the White House: He has quietly completed a biography of his father, former President George H.W. Bush.

Four teenagers face felony criminal mischief charges after a BB guns vandalism spree in West Texas damaged dozens of vehicles.

Police say a man has been fatally shot at a West Texas public park during gunfire as children played baseball on a nearby field.

The Texas Historical Commission is poised to decide whether to designate the famed Houston Astrodome a "state antiquities landmark," a status that would make demolishing the iconic structure harder.

This April 18, 2013 file photo shows an aerial view of the remains of a fertilizer plant and an apartment complex to the left, destroyed by an explosion in West, Texas.