The governor and local emergency management personnel are asking West Texans to remain vigilant as the wildfire threat level ...

She used to show the area to visitors, touting the beauty surrounding the town. “But all of this burned,” Farrar said.

A year after devastating wildfires engulfed the Panhandle, killing three people and burning millions of acres, Texas ...

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The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

After the Smokehouse Creek Fire, a House Investigative Committee looked into what's causing wildfires, how the state spends ...

Pipeline failures, and inability of the RRC restrictions to stop M5 earthquakes, are troubling as earthquakes up to M6 might ...

After the Smokehouse Creek Fire, a House Investigative Committee looked into what's causing wildfires, how the state spends money to address and avoid them and more.

Two large earthquakes that hit the Permian basin, the top U.S. oilfield, this week have rattled the Texas oil industry and ...

Oil and gas commissioners overruled the recommendations of technical staff, authorizing an oilfield waste site in Paxton, ...

Oilmen against limits on oil production attacked a state representative at the Stephen F. Austin hotel in 1933. The attack ...