Jim Hogg County News

The Texas Department of Transporation is making preparations to keep drivers safe this weekend on the expressway in case the forecast of cold and wet weather holds true.

Jim Wells County election officials reported Friday that 368 county voters, or 56.9 percent, passed the Brush Country Groundwater Conservation District.

A proposed Brush Country Groundwater Conservation District is a way for Brooks, Jim Wells and Jim Hogg counties to control how much of an increasingly limited and valuable resource is drained out from under them, proponents say.

While working on a ranch in Jim Hogg County, we ran across this Bambi. We removed all the ticks he had and released him back with his mother.

State troopers charged a Galveston man after seizing 3,212 pounds of marijuana from a commercial truck painted to resemble a Halliburton oil field service vehicle, authorities said Tuesday.

A traffic stop on a Texas highway led to the seizure of more than 3,000 pounds of marijuana, the Department of Public Safety said Tuesday.

Something crazy is spreading across Texas, and it may be so destructive that one day it will make Texans actually miss the hated fire ant.

Texas troopers busted a Galveston man Friday who was allegedly driving a truck packed full of pot.

An elevated wildfire exists through Thursday afternoon, National Weather Service meteorologists said.