West News

Though recent storms promised to reset the drought button for a large part of East Texas, the western half of the state will likely see below-normal precipitation from now through August, according to a Texas A&M University climatologist.

Authorities say an Ohio man has been arrested in West Texas after a state trooper found about 50 pounds of cocaine valued at more than $1.6 million hidden in a false compartment of a vehicle.

East Texans should brace today for the possibility of tornado-packing storms like the ones that ripped through Oklahoma on Monday, local meteorologists warned.

The explosion on April 17, 2013, occurred at a facility owned by the West Fertilizer Company in West, Texas that was used for the storage and distribution of fertilizers.

A strong storm produced what authorities think was a tornado Monday evening that smashed into the public school complex in Blanket, a small town in the rolling hills southwest of the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

A bill that would have dramatically changed the rules for a radioactive waste dump died in the Legislature because of a parliamentary error.

Hailey Darlene Dunn was a cheerleader, saxophonist, on the softball and basketball teams, a doer and a leader.

A group of students at Keller-Harvel Elementary School are working hard to help people impacted by the explosion in West.

CBS 7 News May 19, 2013 Gardendale - The hot weather didn't keep people from heading out to Texas Thunder Music Fest.

In efforts to push for better funding to support state parks, a representative from the Keep Texas Parks Open movement spoke to the Marshall Lions Club recently about the initiative.

There are new developments in our story from last week involving a veterans roof repair business that set up shop in West, Texas after the April 17 fertilizer plant explosion.

Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and until recently the editor of Poetry magazine, has written what may become a spiritual classic.

Authorities have revealed the latest details of the ongoing investigation into what caused a fire and explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas last month.

The last 30 animal shelters in South and West Texas will no longer end the lives of unwanted shelter dogs, cats, kittens, and puppies by gas chambers using carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide.

The State/FEMA Disaster Recovery Center in West, Texas will be open Sunday, May 19 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The DRC will resume normal hours Monday, May 20.

Each time I visit the West Texas town of Albany, it seems that the locals mistake me for a resident.

I believe there are bonds formed in this life which should never be compromised or broken.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine invites applicants for the position of Chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience.

Laredo's mayor was among a group of city officials who paid a visit to the city of West, Texas today.

Closing in now on Armed Forces Day and Memorial Day, those of us involved one way or another can remember all sorts of bravery and heroism.