WEST TEXAS

Video provided by LSM Storm Chaser James Burch shows how dangerously close he got to a tornado in Shallowater in West Texas on Friday.

The mayor of Colorado City, Texas, has resigned after lashing out at constituents amid this week’s devastating cold snap. “No one owes you or your family anything; nor is it the local government’s responsibility to support you during trying times like this! Sink or swim, it’s your choice!” Tim Boyd said in a Facebook post that’s since been...

The massive weather system has sent temperatures plunging from coast to coast.

A West Texas judge has a word of caution to those attending court hearings via Zoom: Always check for filters before logging on.

A West Texas judge has a word of caution to those attending court hearings via Zoom: Always check for filters before logging on.

A West Texas attorney accidentally joined a court hearing with a Zoom filter of a cat turned on—and he couldn’t figure out how to turn it off.

A West Texas flower shop owner who posted a video on Facebook bragging about breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the U.S. Capitol riot last week was arrested Wednesday, federal officials said. The Midland Reporter-Telegram identified the woman in the bottom left of a photo. The FBI arrested Jenny Cudd and another Midland resident, Eliel Rosa, in...

Located in the charming town of Marathon, the legendary Gage Hotel offers an oasis of laid-back luxury and is a short drive away from an outdoor adventure at Big Bend National Park.   MORE: GageHotel.com  

Tourism destinations in West Texas are becoming COVID-19 hot spots, as visitors seek social distance. As NBC 5’s Vince Sims reports it’s causing some people to urge tourists to stay away.

While its importance began to fade 150 years ago, out on the barren mesquite and greasewood flats, Horse Head Crossing has never been forgotten.

The value of oil fields in West Texas have plummeted due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has caused the demand for crude to go down.

The U.S. Department of Energy is planning to send a few gallons of radioactive wastewater from a South Carolina nuclear reservation to Texas, where it will be treated and disposed.

Officials say five people were killed, including three young children, in a vehicle collision in West Texas.

Three Texas Parks and Wildlife Department employees died in a helicopter crash in West Texas on Saturday.

Matt Harbison, from Tennesee, was in Marathon, Texas, when he captured what appears to be space debris re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere around 2 a.m. July 18. More informaton in Weather Connection.

As an unknown object entered the atmosphere over Texas, some lucky folks captured videos of the incident early Sunday morning.

Prosecutors are seeking to keep dozens of guns and firearm accessories seized from a man whose home was searched last year following a mass shooting in West Texas that left more than 20 people injured and seven dead.

Marj Carpenter, a Texas newspaper reporter who went on to briefly lead the nation’s largest Presbyterian denomination in the mid-1990s, has died.

A suspected neo-Nazi has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a gun charge in West Texas. Aiden Bruce-Umbaugh, 23, could have received up to 10 years in prison at his Tuesday sentencing in Lubbock, Texas, for firearms possession by an unlawful user of a controlled substance. Federal prosecutors said the charge resulted from…

Two earthquakes centered near the same remote area of West Texas rattled the region on Thursday morning. The first tremor registered at a magnitude 3.0 early Thursday. The second was a magnitude 5.0 about six hours later, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. “It felt like a truck going by, then you could hear a crack in the walls,” said…