The Ector County Commissioners Court met for several hours with a busy Tuesday agenda for the first meeting of February. Commissioners heard from a number of residents in favor of creating two ...

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ECISD was noted, along with six other school districts in the country, as high poverty districts that have shown a trend in ...

Ahead of the 2025 legislative session, State Representative Brooks Landgraf introduced House Bill 221, which proposed significant reforms to standardized ...

On Tuesday, Ector County commissioners voted to put creating two emergency services districts on the May ballot. The districts would provide Fire and EMS in unincorporated parts of the county. Only ...

The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

A new report from researchers at Stanford and Harvard highlights the nationwide challenges of student learning recovery ...

A 20-year-old Odessa man was arrested last week on a warrant issued after a 16-year-old girl accused him of luring her to a house and inappropriately touching her. According to an Odessa Police ...

In January's human trafficking operations in the Permian Basin, four victims were rescued – ages 16 months, 7, 18 and ...

The Texas Department of Public Safety, in collaboration with other law enforcement agencies, made over 20 arrests and rescued ...