Phantom Hill News

Winchester rifles are on display in "The Guns That Won the West" exhibit at Frontier Texas! Nanci Liles, director of Abilene Convention and Visitor's Bureau, received an e-mail Wednesday that brought smiles all the way from her office to Frontier Texas! The upcoming issue of the national magazine Museum will include an article about the Fort ...

The scene of a two-car fatal accident along FM 600 near Lake Fort Phantom Hill on April 9, 2008.

The city has started offering residents around a section of Lake Fort Phantom Hill the ability to buy the property they have been leasing.

Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials say a female wolf with the Phantom Hill pack was recently killed by a hunter, marking the 29th wolf kill since Idaho's hunting season opened this year.

A parent approached the Merkel Independent School Board this week to consider an ROTC program, which would bring a junior military course to the district located in the vicinity of Dyess Air Force Base.

National and state environmental groups and a multicounty coalition are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to halt the process for the construction of coal-fired power plants.

Nicole Cullen , and Gloria Fanous-O'Neil try to straighten out an umbrella as Eliana Fanous pulls out money to buy tickets for the West Texas Fair & Rodeo on Sunday at the Taylor County Expo Center.

YAHOO! Local News For Sale: Contact the city of Abilene myersd@reporternews.com / 325-676-6734 Thursday, September 3, 2009 Get your checkbook ready.

Significant steps are being taken to ensure Abilene and surrounding communities have enough water to withstand future droughts and variability of climate.

Anthony Ortega of Bontke Bros. Construction Company scoops up concrete in the 4400 block of Potomac Avenue as work on the street continues there on Wednesday.

Members of the valley's Phantom Hill wolf pack have been linked to the deaths of 12 domestic sheep in the Baker Creek drainage last Sunday and may be killed.

Wolves that are part of the Phantom Hill pack near the central Idaho resort town of Ketchum have been linked to the deaths of 12 domestic sheep and could be shot legally.

News YAHOO! By Jared Fields Monday, August 10, 2009 A 42-year-old California woman drowned Sunday at Lake Fort Phantom Hill while trying to teach someone how to swim.

News YAHOO! By Jared Fields Monday, August 10, 2009 A 42-year-old California woman drowned Sunday at Lake Fort Phantom Hill while trying to teach someone how to swim.

A 42-year-old California woman drowned Sunday at Lake Fort Phantom Hill while trying to teach someone how to swim.

Frank Lechuga Sr., his son Frank Jr. and daughter Fatima fish Wednesday at Kirby Lake, which has seen its water level drop.

YAHOO! City to begin selling lots at Lake Fort Phantom By Doug Myers Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Reporter-News Photo by Ronald W. Erdrich Abilene City Councilman Stormy Higgins picks a seed pod from one of the blackeyed pea plants in his lakefront garden Wednesday.

Thomas Metthe/Reporter-News Cooper High School assistant band director Pearl Owens, center, hands some fireworks to Landon Childers, left, as Christina Allmand writes up a receipt at the Cooper Band's fireworks stand on Buffalo Gap Road on Wednesday, July 1, 2009.

Avoid watering on windy days. n Cover pools and spas. n Buy a rain barrel to collect water from gutters to water plants.

Abilene water consumption jumped Wednesday to nearly 6 million gallons more a day than last year's use on the date.