West Texas News

$1.76 million grant will assist 60,000 West Texas college students with financial challenges

By Benjamin Kibbey | Oct 21, 2020

Approximately 60,000 students from four West Texas colleges are set to benefit from a two-year, $1.76 million grant from the Prentice Farrar & Alline Ford Brown Foundation and Bank of America.

Ranchers in Dickens, other West Texas counties can apply for FSA emergency loans

By Benjamin Kibbey | Sep 25, 2020

Due to the drought that has stricken portions of Texas, Dickens County is among four Texas communities recently designated as primary natural disaster areas by Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue.

Completed Xcel Energy project will increase reliability, affordability for customers

By Benjamin Kibbey | Jul 2, 2020

Building onto an existing set of high-voltage power lines that had previously only stretched from Oklahoma west to Abernathy, Xcel Energy's newly completed TUCO-China Draw project now delivers 345-kilovolt transmission lines as far as Carlsbad, New Mexico.