Party of the Century . The Shamrock Hotel’s Opening Night Gala on March 18, 1949, was the biggest, brashest, most outrageous party Houston had ever seen. Broadcast live on NBC radio with host ...

A 1953 map of the wells in Lubbock County hangs in the office of the groundwater district. [Photo: Annie Rice for The Texas Tribune] Rapid population growth, climate change, and aging water ...

Using a USGS dataset of 117,672 documented orphan wells nationwide, the researchers found that 54 percent of the wells are within aquifers that supply 94 percent of groundwater used nationally.

Water sampling and meeting informationHarrison County: May 5th, water samples can be dropped off from 8:30-10:00 a.m. at the AgriLife Extension office, 2005 Warren Drive, Marshall.

Running out of water also is a concern for some rural residents in Bastrop County, where some private well pumps into the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer have had to be lowered because of overpumping ...

Officials in Johnson County, Texas, declared a state of disaster on Tuesday after extensive testing revealed dangerous levels of "forever chemicals" in agricultural land, groundwater and animal ...

The map also identifies more inland or non-coastal cities that could be affected, such as Beaumont, and parts of Orange County, as well as cities such as Lake Jackson and Port Arthur.

Eddie Belcher, 63, looks out from the porch of the home he built on land in Red River County that has been in his family for seven generations on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, near Cuthand, Texas.

Sarah Stogner uses a drone to get images and video of a geyser of produced water in West Texas as it comes out of the ground on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024 in Toyah. Elizabeth Conley/Staff Photographer ...

It was appropriate that Georgia's Senator Richard Brevard Russell pronounced virtually the last words in the week that smashed the civil rights bill. For courtly Dick Russell had also had the ...

A Water Development Board study of Texas aquifers published in 2016 showed that water levels in the Trinity Aquifer around Dallas and Tarrant Counties rose from 1995 to 2010, but then declined ...

Documents show the well, originally known as the Sloan Blair No.1, was drilled looking for oil in 1951 in northern Pecos County. But failing to find oil, the operator transferred the well to the ...