Dalhart News

Texas' longstanding shortage of prison guards has evaporated significantly in recent months - to the lowest numbers in more than a decade, thanks to a struggling economy and pay incentives that include bonuses and raises.

VENICE -- The second in a series of articles on the 53rd Venice Biennale.

Irish artist John Gerrard is off in a far part of Venice that few people ever get to. And he's only on the periphery of the official Venice Biennale events. But Gerrard seems to have made a splash despite those handicaps. The projected landscapes that he's showing are more compellingly real than any art you're likely to have seen, but also more complex in their view of our realities. The artist announced last week that most of his Venice exhibition will be coming to the Hirshhorn in the fall.

The National Weather Service in Amarillo has issued a tornado warning for Hartley and south central Dallam counties until 5 p.m. The NWS reports that local law enforcement reported a "landspout" - a type of tornado - about nine miles northeast of Hartley and 11 miles east of Dalhart.

Another round of storms hit portions of the Texas Panhandle on Thursday but there were no major reports of damage from tornadoes that touched down briefly around Amarillo and Dalhart and the penny-sized hail that pelted the region.

Local artist Roberta Sharp' s 61st one-woman show is underway in the lobby of the Wells Fargo Bank at One O'Connor Plaza in Victoria.

Pacific Cheese officially marked the opening of it's new plant here in Amarillo today.

Artist Roberta Sharp will celebrate her 61st one-man show June 1-30 in the lobby of the Wells Fargo Bank at One O'Connor Plaza in Victoria.

The Graham Lady Blues softball team is bidstrict champions after a 14-0 victory over Dalhart on at Plains Capital Field in Lubbock on Monday.

One of the first things Jeff Turner wanted to accomplish when he took over Moore County Hospital in Dumas was to cut back on expensive nursing costs.

Sandra "Sue" Edwards, age sixty-six, passed away Friday, April 10, 2009 at her home at Ft.

For 19 hours Friday, the Jones family sat in a Volvo as a snowstorm raged around them.

A winter storm that hammered the Texas Panhandle causing treacherous driving conditions and at times poor visibility was a possible factor in a Friday accident on Interstate 40 at Whitaker Road involving multiple vehicles.

A Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman says all roads are open and clear Sunday in Amarillo in the aftermath of a spring blizzard.

As Chris Burt [ JessePedia ], Author of "Extreme Weather" pointed out to me yesterday: "While several localities in southern Texas hit 100 yesterday a major blizzard was raging in north Texas like Amarillo with 19 and 8" of snow with 10-foot drifts!" Indeed, I saw at least a range of 80 degrees yesterday afternoon, and the Blizzard got worse... at ...

All roads in and out of Dalhart are closed, said Lt. Barbara Soto of Dalhart central dispatch.

Neither the Dallam County sheriff nor any deputies were in the office this afternoon.

The Texas Panhandle is shutting down as a winter storm intensified. Officials closed Interstate 40 west of Amarillo and U.S. 287 north of the city early Friday.

A series of wrecks and blizzard conditions in the far northwestern corner of the Texas Panhandle has forced the closing of a stretch of U.S. Highway 87 from Dalhart to the New Mexico state line.

The citizens of Dalhart are credited with the arrest of three criminal suspects in connection with the deliberate burning of a Dalhart Police vehicle.

The owner of Scardello Artisan Cheese on Oak Lawn used to be just your average film and video production person.