Midland-Odessa faces surprising flooding issues despite its desert setting, with caliche soil and outdated drainage systems ...

These thefts are not common in other parts of the state, but because of the large oil and gas industry in West Texas, oil ...

Eugene Franco Methola of Odessa, 51, is charged in a $114,355 oil theft and organized crime case involving stolen petroleum from Western Midstream.

A hundred-foot oil rig pushes up amid acres of irrigated cotton fields and long dirt roads on this oil patch between Midland and Odessa, the two main towns in the Permian Basin in West Texas. Both ...

Sales tax income for Midland went from $13.4 million in fiscal year 2001 to $29.4 million in fiscal year 2011. So much money is flowing in that the city's reserve fund is now equal to about half ...

Chihuahua native and former oil-field worker Ramiro Bustamante owns the whole block, and arrives at about 3 a.m. to start prepping juicy discada and cheesy chile rellenos wrapped in house-made ...

In the past year alone, Midland added 8,800 jobs, 7,900 coming in the oil field, construction and transportation sectors. In five years the city’s population has jumped by 15,000 residents to ...

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