Riesel News

WACO a 'The American Red Cross is assisting the family of a volunteer firefighter whose home on J&B Springs Road in Riesel was gutted by fire late Wednesday night.

I A t happened on J and D R oad near the McLennan - Falls County line. The f A irefighter and his family got out of the house safely , but with only the clothes on their backs.

Riesel volunteer firefighters were taken by surprise when they arrived on the scene of a fire just outside town Wednesday night.

Shannon D'Ann Herod and Justin Daniel Wade were married June 6 at Barron's with the bride's uncle, Gary Meyer, officiating.

Several Central Texas communities are grappling with water shortages during this already long, hot summer.

McLennan County is beating the pack when it comes to sales tax rebates, and the little community of Riesel is stomping the status quo because of the construction of a billion-dollar electric plant.

Despite a deep recession and a nationwide housing slump, McLennan County's tax base grew last year by 6.9 percent, according to new preliminary tax appraisal estimates.

The Waco City Council today is set to award contracts for more than $18 million for airport improvements, new fire stations and other big projects.

Riesel Police Chief Danny Krumnow started off his workweek with a frustrating experience that kept his town without a local police presence for most of a day.

In the Riesel council race, Katherine Bode was returned to the council as the leading vote-getter, but incumbent Denise Krumnow did not fare as well.

The Waco Community Band will conclude its 2008-09 concert season with a presentation of "The French Connection" at 7:30 tonight in the McLennan Community College Performing Arts Center.

We'll bring you a story later, but here's the blog of today's hearing from the McLennan County Courthouse.

Residents of the McLennan County communities of Riesel, Axtell and Hallsburg may not lose their cable television service after all.

Riesel is searching for a new mayor and city prosecutor after both officials' resignations were announced at the city council meeting Tuesday.

The sky wasn't falling, and there wasn't an earthquake. No rockets were tested in McGregor, and the space shuttle is fine.

A 23-year-old Riesel woman charged with two counts of sexual assault of a child remained jailed Friday in lieu of $1 million bond in a case in which investigators say an adult sexual device was used on a young ...

A 23-year-old Riesel woman was being held in the McLennan County Jail on $1 million bond late Thursday in the sexual assault of a girl younger than age 14, authorities said.

Who remembers the great coal rush of 2007? Everyone in Waco ought to, although it now seems like a hazy memory.

A single smokestack 30 stories high looms on the horizon of this rural town 15 miles east of Waco.

A single smokestack 30 stories high looms on the horizon of this rural town 15 miles east of Waco.