The Latest Breaking News from West Texas

Oil prices inched lower on Tuesday, paring gains from the previous session, as an OPEC+ deal to cut output by 100,000 barrels per day in October was seen as a largely symbolic move to bolster prices after the market's recent slide. Brent crude futures had fallen 81 cents, or 0.9%,…

Oil and gas companies produce 3.8 billion barrels of wastewater per year in the arid Permian Basin. A state consortium is trying to figure out whether it can be reused.

Last May, Lubbock became the biggest city in Texas to ban abortion within city limits. Now, with abortion outlawed throughout the Lone Star State, the fight over reproductive rights is taking a new turn.

In West Texas, the tiny hospital in Crosbyton has only two beds, and they’re not always occupied.

A father, and not his 13-year-old son, was driving a pickup truck involved in a fatal crash in West Texas earlier this year, federal investigators said Thursday, adding that the man had methamphetamine in his system.

2011 was the driest year on record for Texas, causing an estimated cost of $7.62 billion in crop and livestock losses. A dry and hot June has many sounding alarm bells about 2022.

The oil boom is generating big profits for energy companies and record tax revenue for Texas, and it’s created a billion-dollar windfall for the state’s giant Permanent University Fund.

VAN HORN, Texas — Culberson County Sheriff Oscar Carrillo is haunted by the sight last year of a father clinging to life next to his son who succumbed to the brutal heat in an unforgiving desert.

Residents of the West Texas city of Odessa remained without water as crews worked to restore service amid scorching temperatures in the area

Loving County is 671 square miles of desert in remote West Texas and has a population of just 57 people

The world has spent a decade gorging on fuel from America’s shale basins, and oil prices are topping $100 a barrel. So it might seem an odd time to be contemplating the energy transition. But that's precisely the task facing the small towns across places like Texas, Wyoming and New…