Cleaning up oilfield pollution in arid West Texas is costly and complicated. The bankruptcy process allows companies to move on while the public pays the price.

This is the third year businesses in the Permian Basin — known for high school football and oil fields — have participated in the University of Texas at Austin program. Students this year say they are seeing their hometowns in a new way.

An AMBER Alert was canceled for a 5-year-old boy after he was found about 6 hours away from where he was abducted, authorities said.

A West Texas grand jury has indicted a man in the death of his ex-girlfriend's 13-year-old daughter reported missing more than a decade ago.