In a field east of Midland-Odessa, Wilson stopped her car where an unlit flare — meant to burn off excess oil and gas — poked up from the ground. To the naked eye, it was a quiet scene ...

They're believed to have originated from the Midland Army Airfield, a former training base for bomber pilots and crews located on U.S. Highway 80 halfway between Midland and Odessa in Midland County.

In the booming Permian Basin oil field, a large unincorporated community just outside of the city of Odessa proper has ...

are characteristic of the new oil field. When drivers needed a bathroom, Gonzalez said, “you went out on the land or busted a gut.” The wait times weren’t paid. In Midland-Odessa ...

Oilfield traffic drives through a lease as a natural gas flare operates in the distance Monday, April 25, 2022, outside of Midland ... the appropriation of oil field equipment is unlawful if ...

On Thursday, teams with the Midland County Fire Marshal's Office's Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) and the City of Midland EOD discovered six World War II-era training bombs at an oil field in ...