Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Texas rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor ...

A three-day conference on quail management is coming to Abilene in mid-September and will feature a field trip to a local ranch.

Big Country schools are gearing up for their first days of class. Most begin next week but a few like Merkel, Winters and ...

Check out where the Big Country's best six-man football teams landed in Dave Campbell's Class 1A preseason Texas high school ...

Former Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke will hold a town hall at the 201 Mesquite Event Center Sunday afternoon.

Mitchell County Public Library patrons frolicked in foamy fun in celebration of the end of this year's summer reading program ...

The repurposed former Lincoln Middle School (and Abilene High, before that) celebrated the final structural steel laid for the ongoing project.

Read more about Gordon Longhorns multi-sport star Stryker Reed after the senior announced his verbal commitment to play ...

Officials held a topping-out ceremony for Abilene Heritage Square Tuesday, celebrating the final steel I-beam to be installed.

A fossil found in southwest Germany in 1978 has been deemed to represent a new species of marine reptile known as a ...

An Abilene man was involved in a two-vehicle crash that killed a woman in North Texas late Saturday, the Texas Department of ...

"We are in fundraising right now," said architect Mitch Wright, who led the cleanup effort and gave a brief presentation about the arboretum's future. "Bill Senter kicked it off with a $30,000 grant.