Colorado County News

Diane Matus of Columbus recently announced her candidacy for re-election to the office of Colorado County Treasurer in the March 2010 Democratic Primary.

Early voting in Colorado County for the Nov. 3 constitutional amendment election started Monday, Oct.

Ty Prause has formally announced his candidacy for Colorado County Judge in the March 2010 Republican primary and wants to serve the citizens of Colorado County as their next County Judge.

An Orange man who was serving time in prison for intoxication manslaughter was killed Tuesday afternoon.

Four people are facing felony drug charges after police found marijuana during a traffic stop in Bryan, authorities said.

Texas Exes Executive Director Jim Boon announced at a Texas Exes Event on Saturday, Oct.

Colorado County commissioners, meeting on Monday, Sept. 14, approved a proposed budget with expenditures of $13.7 million for the fiscal year, starting Jan.

The 31st Colorado County Fair is here and will run from Sept. 10 to 13 at the Ag Complex in Columbus.

The 2009 edition of the Colorado County Fair will get underway with the 31st annual Fair Queen's Pageant slated for Saturday, Sept.

Preservation Texas has issued a call for nominations for its 2010 list of Texas' Most Endangered Historic Places and is asking Panhandle residents to help identify threatened historic resources by submitting nominations.

A federal judge in Laredo, Texas, has ordered S. Lavon Evans Jr. to pay at least $2.7 million to the HEI Resources East OMG Joint Venture in connection with a failed oil and gas deal.

Texas prosecutors on a comment string titled " Just keep grinnin' - We're winnnin'! " have been engaged in one of the more frank discussions I've seen among working law enforcement types about the efficacy of the war on drugs.

Only scattered fragments remain of the more than 6 million acres of native coastal grasslands that barely a century ago were home to more than 1 million Attwater's prairie chickens. Share Share Resources FADE TO BLACK Native coastal prairie and Attwater's prairie chickens, both almost unimaginably abundant a century ago, have evaporated ...

The mere existence of Splashway Family Waterpark, sitting on farmland that's miles from a large highway or a large city, is as mysterious as a crop circle and as complicated as a crop subsidy.

I spend a great deal of time searching used bookstores and cruising the Internet for the odd article on some noteworthy lawman or gunslinger.

The drought that has a strong grip over Colorado County and the surrounding areas is having a drastic impact on both the crop and livestock sectors of the county's agriculture says local farmers and ranchers.

Despite the recent report in Sheridan about Africanized 'killer' bees, area bee experts say the terror associated with these bees is generally overblown.

Both Colorado County Judge Al Jamison and Fayette County Judge Ed Janecka issued county disaster declarations last week, banning the sale and use of restricted fireworks that are classified as 'skyrockets with sticks' and 'missiles with fins'. Both More stories - - - The Boy Scouts of Weimar have had a busy and productive year from August 2008 ...

Fifteen hundred acres, and one home has burned as twelve agencies battle a wild fire in Colorado County.

On a dusty road near Columbus, past a charred tree line, sits what's left of the Hollub House on Reese Lane.