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The Amarillo Area Foundation has nearly 100 scholarships to give away this year to Panhandle students, but they must apply by 5 p.m. Friday.

If you get a shiver today, that's understandable with the likelihood of a little ice and snow, but maybe this will help.

The Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District and multiple businesses and agencies have teamed to bring experts from across the region and state to share water conservation wisdom Wednesday at a symposium in Amarillo.

The City of Canyon saw a slight increase in collected sales tax for the 2010-2011 fiscal year from the prior year.

Patrick Ware, chief economist for Amarillo National Bank, told a group Monday of the Amarillo Downtown Kiwanis Club that that the economy is poised for a big jump, but that will depend upon the drought breaking in 2012.

February of 2011 is when wildfires victimized the Panhandle, and one place that took a major hit was the Willow Creek Kennels.

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Forecasters are predicting a good chance of rain showers to brush the region, but it still won't put the region on par for precipitation amounts, authorities said.

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Texas Panhandle school districts are coping with a double dose of cuts, not only to their budgets but to that of the Amarillo-based support center set up to help them.

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Additional charges have been filed against a man in connection with a Texas Panhandle wildfire that destroyed more than 25,000 acres.

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