Past the terracotta canyons and sloping hills in the Texas Panhandle is a colorful, small town center. A vibrant mural...
Texas panhandle wildfires News
When a spate of wildfires tore across the Texas Panhandle in February and scorched 20,000 acres of Craig Cowden’s ranch...

LUBBOCK — Spring rains have revived much of the green grass covering stretches of plains in the Texas Panhandle —...
AMPA — A company hired to inspect utility poles in the Panhandle declined to testify before Texas lawmakers Wednesday, as...
LUBBOCK — There are burned spots on Jay O’Brien’s ranch outside Stinnett that predate the Smokehouse Creek fire. Over the...

LUBBOCK — Firefighters have completely contained the Smokehouse Creek fire in Hutchinson County after a nearly three-week battle with what...

LUBBOCK — Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan is creating a legislative committee to investigate the Texas Panhandle wildfires to ensure...

(Xcel Energy Inc. will likely be wrangling for years with the legal fallout from the wildfires burning through the Texas...

LUBBOCK — Texas firefighters are gaining more control over the remaining wildfires in the Panhandle, more than two weeks after...

Massive wildfires sparked by power lines used to be a California problem, one many utility executives considered safely confined to...