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During a recent board meeting, district leaders provided updates on the ongoing initiatives aimed at improving schools across ...

Design and construction is in the works for many projects during the calendar year. The groundbreaking of a new middle school in West Odessa is the latest example.

Tuesday's Ector County Commissioners Court meeting ended with a 3-1 vote to approve the award of design build services for the new Ector County Courthouse and with some ruffled feathers. The court ...

An artist's rendering of what the new Ector County Courthouse may look like. County Judge Dustin Fawcett hopes for input from the public on the exterior look of the courthouse. He said they hope ...

Photographer Robert Ector has worked with high-profile people like Mariah Carey and Serena Williams, and he knows knows a thing or two about creating an iconic image. Ector sat down with Alex ...

Gut health expert Tim Spector has revealed the foods he is eating to slash his risk of developing dementia - after his mother was diagnosed with the condition at the age of 85. Spector, who founded ...

Delaware County is moving to consolidate more than 100 precincts in an act that officials say could save over $100,000 annually. Delaware County Director of Elections James P. Allen unveiled a ...

Logan County voters will be divided into about half as many precincts as before, after the Board of County Commissioners ...

KXAN has mapped precinct-level results in counties across the state to get a better picture of how Texans voted in the U.S.

An analysis of county-level precinct data shows that support was not uniform, with central Waco remaining an island of solid blue in a rural-suburban sea of red. Donald Trump won 57 of the 91 ...