The FOX Forecast Center is tracking the threat of a multiday severe weather risk across the southern tier of the country that could produce hail, damaging winds and tornadoes as it sweeps from west to east. The first round of thunderstorm activity is expected to fire over the Plains on Sunday, with communities further east […]
Washington County Circuit Court judge Andrew Erwin granted a temporary restraining order Thursday that allows a North Plains referendum to remain on the ballot this May, in what appears to be the first legal challenge of a law Gov. Tina Kotek signed that would have retroactively banned referendums on Urban Growth Boundary issues. “We fully […]
A cold front, carrying heavy smoke from wildfires in the Texas Panhandle, is saturating the region Tuesday night with a potent smoke smell as it pushing into Lubbock and the South Plains. The smoke smell appeared in Lubbock County around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday with local 911 call centers reporting dozens of calls regarding the odor. […]
Southern Colorado’s “Castle on the Plains” is facing major changes as the National Parks Service deals with challenges caused by the aging building. Bent’s Old Fort, located near La Junta, is an artifact of Colorado’s frontier days. It served as a trading site on the Santa Fe Trail between white settlers and native Cheyenne and […]
PLAINS TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Cooking for a cause: That was the goal Monday in Luzerne County. The 13th Annual Cooking for a Cause was held in Plains Township at the Woodlands. The event was created when the Brotherhood of Chefs formed and decided that they wanted to do something to benefit a local […]
The Texas Department of Transportation in Lubbock and Amarillo already began treating roads in preparation for freezing precipitation and snowfall this weekend. With anticipated precipitation, either snowfall or rain, and a forecast of temperatures dropping into the lower 20s and teens late Sunday night into early Monday morning, both the local National Weather Service offices […]
It comes as no surprise that the Southern Plains bumblebee is already potentially extinct in West Texas, a region marked as one of the largest agricultural landscapes in the nation. For decades, the species has dwindled in numbers across the U.S., and many experts point to farming as the primary driver. Now, in a move […]
Feb. 1—Though groundwater contamination in the West Plains is well-documented, many residents are still in the dark about whether their private well has been filled for years with dangerous PFAS chemicals. Amid outcry of a slow-moving cleanup, the Washington Department of Ecology plans to provide free well testing to the residents of the West Plains […]
Jan. 29—This story, the first in an occasional series about water challenges facing the American heartland, is a partnership between Stateline and the Kansas Reflector. MOSCOW, Kan. — Brownie Wilson pulls off a remote dirt road right through a steep ditch and onto a farmer’s field. He hops out of his white Silverado pickup, mud […]
Editor’s note: Jack Becker is the editor of Caprock Chronicles. He is a Librarian Emeritus, Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today’s essay is about the Sharps Rifle and its use by buffalo hunters on the South Plains was written by Austin Allison, Assistant Librarian and Cataloger, Southwest Collection/Special Collection Library at […]
Jan. 16—NANTICOKE — A Plains Township man was arraigned Tuesday on allegations he impersonated a Nanticoke police sergeant and a Luzerne County adult probation officer. Dominick Rogo, 31, of West Carey Street, manufactured text messages between himself and the police sergeant and probation officer that he forwarded to a woman in Nanticoke, according to court […]
Potential for snow on the Texas High Plains is expected to rise in the coming week with a probability for wintry mix in the northwest Panhandle near Dalhart on Thursday and Friday and increased chances for snow in Lubbock and the surrounding area early next week. According to the National Weather Service offices in Amarillo […]