WEST TEXAS

A strong earthquake that struck a remote area of the West Texas desert caused damage in San Antonio, hundreds of miles from the epicenter, officials said.

A 5.4 magnitude earthquake hit near Pecos, Texas Wednesday, about 400 miles west of Fort Worth.

A powerful magnitude 5.4 earthquake shook West Texas Wednesday afternoon, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company suffered its first launch failure Monday. No one was aboard, only science experiments.

Yahir Cancino, a student of Dalhart High School, was injured during a game in Dimmit against Sundown, Dalhart ISD Superintendent Jeff Byrd said in a news release. 

Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket is scheduled to launch Thursday from the West Texas desert, sending the capsule on a 10-minute flight with crew members on board.

Authorities have identified the bodies of three people who died in fast-moving floodwaters in Tecolote Canyon in northern New Mexico as members of a West Texas family.

An NTSB report released Thursday shows that it was not the 13-year-old male, but his 38-year-old father who was driving the truck on March 15 that crashed head-on into a van, killing nine people.

Residents of the West Texas city of Odessa who have been without safe tap water this week may be able to drink safely straight from the faucet as early as Saturday afternoon, city officials say.

Residents of the West Texas city of Odessa improvised emergency water supplies after a water system outage left them high and dry for days amid scorching heat.

A West Texas city’s water system lost pressure after a break in a major water main, leaving tens of thousands of customers with dry taps Tuesday.

A West Texas city’s water system lost pressure after a break in a major water main, leaving tens of thousands of customers with dry taps Tuesday.

Five teens were hospitalized Saturday, two in critical condition, after gunfire broke out at an overnight high school graduation party in West Texas, authorities said.

Three West Texas residents were killed when the SUV they were riding in while it was being towed on a New Mexico highway rolled and they were ejected, according to police.

The top elected official in a rural and sparsely populated West Texas county has been arrested after being accused of stealing cattle.

Fire crews in West Texas hope to make progress Saturday against a massive complex of wildfires that have killed one person and burned at least 50 homes, officials said.

Residents in Carbon had to evacuate their homes as the wildfire approached their communities. Candace Sweat reports.

The Texas A&M Forest Service says the Eastland Complex consists fo four different wildfires that have burned more than 45,000 acres as of Friday. The small town of Carbon has been hit particularly hard.

Firefighters battling wildfires in what is called the Eastland Complex are facing strong winds and dry conditions Friday.

Wildfires are continuing to burn in Eastland County about 100 miles west of Fort Worth.