Gov. Greg Abbott and Houston Mayor John Whitmire reportedly have been in initial talks to sell the city’s “excess” water to West Texas, the Houston Chronicle reported. Whitmire, a longtime state senator before being elected mayor, told the Chronicle that he was open to the idea if it means the city ...

While our little dusting of snow and sub-freezing temps only made us want to bundle up, it does bring back to mind the 2021 “Ice-Mageddon” winter storm and all the outages it caused – for weeks in some cases. We in town had to deal with rolling blackouts or brownouts. We remember being grateful for ...

Outlaws from the East rushed to the Texas frontier like tornados to a trailer park. That’s because in Texas, a bandit with his ugly mug plastered on a wanted poster could outrun his checkered past. He could change his name, steal a shirt and assume a completely new identity. He could cross the Color...

The 89th Texas legislative session begins on Jan. 14 with a still-unresolved race for speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. State Reps. David...

C ongratulations to all the youth (and behind-the-scenes parents) who exhibited animals at the 93rd Gillespie County Youth Livestock Show. We recogniz...

Ex-president’s life after office was model for how we should live Jimmy Carter may not have been the most successful president in our line of leaders....