Panhandle News

A private utility firm is going to commence the first of two public hearings tonight on a proposal to string wind-energy lines across the Panhandle.

The snow expected to blanket Amarillo and other parts of the Texas Panhandle didn't arrive as expected Sunday, the National Weather Service in Amarillo said.

A happy home doesn't have to be in Happy. A farmer and rancher from the Texas Panhandle town of Happy won a $185,000 home in Amarillo as part of a charity benefit.

Vintage aircraft from Dew Line Squadron fly over the Texas Panhandle War Memorial Veterans Day Ceremony Wednesday, November 11, 2009.

The foundation that produces the musical drama "Texas" has fired its executive director.

A father and son riding a bicycle were taken to Northwest Texas Hospital in critical condition after being hit by a car Wednesday afternoon.

If you are a Veteran, today is your day, and all of us here at ProNewsA 7 salute you.

A A host of landowners from Donley and Roberts counties went to Tuesday's Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District's public hearing.

Jo McKenzie burned a personal message into a cane she was making for Luther Burnam Jr.

Originally published November 11, 2009 at 7:45 a.m., updated November 11, 2009 at 8:12 a.m. MIAMI, Texas a ' Fire damaged the only school in the Texas Panhandle town of Miami and forced classes to be canceled until Friday.

School district revenue could dip this year because of the unusually high number of students who got sick last month.

The death of a 15-year-old Oklahoma boy who was a passenger in a vehicle in Sherman County last week capped a deadly three-week span for teenagers on Panhandle roads.

Panhandle authorities say a Lubbock man shot and killed a British tourist during bar robbery in Amarillo.

Posted on Thursday, November 05, 2009 at 2:56 p.m. The U.S. Army says 12 people have been killed and 31 wounded in a shooting rampage on the Fort Hood Army base in Texas.

A Some sad news from the Amarillo art scene, Mardy Lemmons, a very popular artist and instructor at Amarillo College diedA unexpectedly at the age of 50.

Posted on Thursday, November 05, 2009 at 10:12 a.m. A natural gas pipeline exploded in the Texas Panhandle on Thursday, shaking homes, melting window blinds and shooting flames hundreds of feet into the air, authorities said.

Originally published November 5, 2009 at 5:53 a.m., updated November 5, 2009 at 5:54 a.m. BUSHLAND, Texas a ' A natural gas pipeline explosion west of Amarillo shook homes and melted the blinds in windows as fire shot hundreds of feet into the air.

Four years ago, Gov. Rick Perry traveled to Dalhart to announce that the Hilmar Cheese Co., the largest single-site cheese and whey products manufacturer in the world, would build a state-of-the-art plant in town.

As folks across the Panhandle we're getting ready for costumes and candy one group of walkers and runners hit the streets of Amarillo for cancer patients.

Susan Rogers and David Currie talk about where the wind power transmission line will cut across the canyon at Currie Ranch near the north end of Palo Duro Canyon.