A local volunteer group called Protecting What Matters is holding three community meetings next week. They want to talk to people about a plan to build stations and bring faster fire trucks and ...

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The Ector County ISD Board of Trustees will meet at 6 p.m. April 15 in the first floor board room of the administration building, 802 N. Sam Houston Ave. Trustees will consider hiring a chief ...

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This weekend the Ector County Coliseum’s outback arena is bringing the rodeo back to town, but it’s not your typical rodeo.

• Police were called at 11:29 a.m. Thursday to a disturbance at Garrison School, 936 W. Michigan Ave., involving a report of a student punching and biting staff members. Officers helped to calm the ...

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State health officials identified 36 new measles cases since Tuesday. The first cases were reported in El Paso County on ...

The West Texas measles outbreak has reached 541 cases, with two child fatalities reported. New Mexico death is still under ...

The latest update on the growing measles outbreak in the South Plains shows no additional cases reported in Hale County.

Texas health officials have released new data on the measles outbreak infection rate and new case numbers. Here's what to know.