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By JAMES DRAPER  |   Bring up ‘water supply’ in the wrong corner of Texas, and a person might get wrung out and hung out to dry. It’s a tense issue where there are deficits and just as fraught in places of plenty: the tug-of-war between communities that ‘have’ and their ever-growing ‘have not’ neighbors near

  AUSTIN – Hunters now have new opportunities and scenery to experience this fall through Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s (TPWD) drawn hunt permits program. Through this program, hunters are issued permits for drawn hunts on both public and private lands throughout Texas. Applications are now being accepted for a shot at nearly 9,600 permits

The City of Gladewater’s taking a page out of White Oak’s book – almost literally. Council members here are set to vote July 17 on an ordinance setting regulations for local rights-of-way. It’s derived in large part from a similar ordinance City of White Oak elected officials adopted July 8 to curtail errant digs that

In addition to White Oak’s community-wide water outage and boil water notice, a portion of North White Oak Road will have to be removed and replaced after a dig breached a 12-inch water main Thursday morning. Temporarily shutting off the water supply for repairs, city leaders urged residents to fill containers as quickly as possible.

On July 8, 2025, George Osbron Merrill, III, W/M, DOB: 05/29/2007, pleaded guilty to Criminal Mischief, F3. Defendant Merrill received a prison term of 10 years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. On January 25, 2025, Upshur County Sheriff’s Office arrived at the Union Grove High School involving a potential

AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a consumer alert to protect Texans against bad actors looking to take advantage of the devastating flooding in Texas by perpetrating scams “There are no words for how wrong it is that morally bankrupt people are trying to take advantage of Texans by using this tragedy to scam

[Above: CenterPoint Energy personnel assist a work crew that hit a gas line Tuesday, July 1, in the public right-of-way at First Assembly of God Church in White Oak.] A rash of response calls to fix fiber installers’ issues has bled dry the overtime hours for Public Works in the City of White’s budget for

Upshur County Sheriff’s Office has two ongoing investigations at Union Grove ISD after a student was accused of “Invasive Visual Recording” following an outcry in mid-June. According to a July 2 release from Sheriff Larry Webb, the department’s initial felony inquiry prompted a second misdemeanor case focusing on UGISD Superintendent Kelly Moore, alleging a “Failure