Senator John Cornyn visited the Permian Basin Tuesday afternoon touring a Diamondback Energy well site. During the tour, ...

An environmental group instrumental in winning an endangered species listing for a struggling lizard species in the Permian ...

Aging and abandoned oil wells in West Texas are causing significant environmental damage, public health risks, and financial ...

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Sen. John Cornyn toured a Diamondback Energy production facility to highlight the Permian Basin's role in unleashing U.S.

The PBFR Coalition urges Midland ISD to partner with Third Future Schools to improve outcomes at underperforming schools.

Former McKendree University head coach Mike Babcock is joining the UT-Permian Basin staff, sources tell FootballScoop.

In the booming Permian Basin oil field, a large unincorporated community just outside of the city of Odessa proper has ...

Technology to treat produced water has advanced. But critics warn against relaxing protections for disposal “of what is very ...

Literacy has become a workforce issue and people are starting to acknowledge and tackle it. Many programs have started across the region to help increase literacy to prepare for population and job ...

A sinkhole around an old oil well is growing at an alarming rate on the Kelton Ranch in West Texas. Radford Grocery #17 was ...