Hale County News

Golden Spread Electric Co-op, an Amarillo-based utility company, announced Monday its plans to build a $200 million power plant near Abernathy in Hale County.

Steve Campbell of First United Methodist Church in Slaton officiating. Burial will follow in Parklawn Memorial Gardens under the care of Kornerstone Funeral Directors of Plainview.

Hale County Authorities arrested a County Commissioner who now stands indicted on two felony counts.

A 76-year-old Lubbock man was killed after his car off the road Monday evening in Hale County.

A convicted serial arsonist who set hundreds of local fires in the late 1990s will go to prison for setting a fire this year.

Pioneer west Texas doctor James Wayland was born in Missouri in 1863. After completing his medical degree from the Kentucky School of Medicine, Wayland moved to Texas, settling in Plainview in the panhandle.

Rural health care, water, and economic development, they're issues State Representative Joe Heflin plans to address Thursday and Friday during town hall meetings in Hale County.

As expected, two-term state Rep. Joe Heflin will have a Republican opponent in next year's election, and the Crosbyton Democrat said he is ready for the challenge.

The autopsy shows Ronald Bures, 52 died from blunt force trauma to the head. The Lamb County Sheriff's Office says he was beaten to death by his housemates and then dragged more than three miles into Hale County where his body was left.

The autopsy shows Ronald Bures, 52 died from blunt force trauma to the head. The Lamb County Sheriff's Office says he was beaten to death by his housemates and then dragged more than three miles into Hale County where his body was left.

Most of Texas received a little to a lot of rain the first week of August. In Central Texas and parts of East Texas 2 to 3 inches was common, with isolated instances of from 8 to 10 inches, according to the National Weather Service and reports from Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel.

Two men accused in the bludgeoning death of a housemate over the weekend were unable to lift the victim's body into a car to take it elsewhere.

The latest in a murder investigation spanning two counties - the medical examiner's office is performing an autopsy to confirm the identity of a dead body in Lamb County.

The murder of a Lamb County man whose housemates investigators said dragged him behind his car through two counties was the talk of the town Saturday in Cotton Center.

The Hale County Sheriff's Office was investigating a suspicious death as a homicide Friday night after they found a dead body near Cotton Center.

A 21-year-old Brownfield woman was killed in a one-vehicle rollover Thursday morning in Hale County.

When the owners of property a few miles north of Lubbock County refused to give up their land believing there was hidden gold, prospectors hoping to start a new town had to look somewhere else.

Wetzel, chief nursing officer of Plainveiw-based Regence Health Network, which operates seven medical and dental clinics in the South Plains and the Panhandle, was counting on House Bill 3485 to become law because the proposed legislation would have allowed hospitals in counties with less than 50,000 residents - like Hale County - to have doctors ...

Official details are scarce Tuesday about an incident that sent two Petersburg teens to the hospital Memorial Day weekend.

Hale County authorities need your help to track down two brothers accused in the same crime.