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The Texas suicide rate is up nearly 40 percent since 2000, and call centers across the state do not have enough staff to ...

Feeling déjà vu? A proposed student housing project in Tech Terrace is setting the stage for another debate over zoning. Here's what to know.

It’s just a headline on a press release, and because “both footballs” are in their highest profile portions of the season and ...

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

A Texas man was arrested this week after Lubbock police charged him with severely injuring a 6-month-old baby. The infant was ...

Perlstein, grew up in Lubbock and went to Texas Tech University. She and her husband Dan moved to the Pacific Palisades in ...

Texas state lawmakers are considering a plan to create a Lone Star Air Force to battle wildfire outbreaks. The operators of ...

Will Texas House Republicans face censure following Speaker vote? Can they legally be removed from primary ballot?

The South Plains Kidney Foundation (SPKF) has a local support group that wants to remind patients they still have place to ...

Lubbock's Leprino Foods facility is officially open. Here's how it will feed the world and is expected to boost the community ...

Texas House of Representatives elects Speaker Dustin Burrows, a Republican, with a majority of Democrats' votes. Insights ...