Ector County residents living in West Odessa have signed a petition to bring full-time fire and EMS services to the area. The ...

Community members want to put an Emergency Service District on the May ballot through a petition. Their efforts hope to solve ...

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After the state missed the Jan. 1 deadline, lawmakers still have time to approve administrative costs before applying for ...

Odessa Links, in association with the Texas Homeless Network, Odessa Homeless Coalition, and Midland Homeless Coalition, and ...

Having a flashlight in your car can come in handy at any time of the year. You might have a breakdown at night and need the ...

A winter weather storm swept through North Texas on Thursday, upending a region not used to frozen precipitation. Many ...

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NORTH TEXAS – A man is dead after a fire broke out inside his tent in The Colony. Police officers and fire personnel responded to multiple 911 calls about a brush fire at about 6:20 a.m. Friday on ...

Sheniel Nicholas Samuels, 27, was driving at an "unsafe speed for the icy road conditions" and veered into the eastbound lane ...

Texas A&M Forest Service is now operating out of a new and improved emergency operations center -- which should improve the agency's ability to protect Texas from natural disasters.