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Amarillo city staff walked out of a budget conversation Tuesday. The council wanted to talk tax rate. Staff said no — not without a full presentation ready. Councilmember David Prescott didn't show. No vote happened.…
Listen + read script →Español →The Amarillo Hospital District board approved a $12.31 million budget for fiscal 2026-2027 Tuesday morning. Here's the structural point: Texas mandates that hospital districts fund indigent care—medical services for…
Listen + read script →Six people charged with distributing fentanyl in Amarillo have entered pleas in federal court. Several of the accused have accepted deals rather than go to trial. The charges stem from a distribution network that moved…
Listen + read script →Potter County Detention Center is running at 93.66 percent capacity this week. That's 561 people incarcerated there, plus another 51 housed at other facilities. The jail population ticked up from 91.15 percent last…
Listen + read script →Español →Water's not coming back. The City of Amarillo says the reservoir hit 60 percent capacity last week, triggered Stage 1 of the drought plan, and a week of voluntary conservation hasn't moved the needle. City Manager…
Listen + read script →Potter County voters need to check their mail. The county election administration is flagging unsolicited mail-in ballot applications being sent to some people in the area. These aren't coming from the Texas Secretary…
Listen + read script →Español →The City of Canyon scheduled street maintenance on Hunsley Road starting today, Sunday, August twenty-third, through Wednesday, August twenty-sixth. In Amarillo, downtown maintenance continues on Buchanan Street and…
Listen + read script →Español →Heat first. Meteorologist Brian James says triple-digit temperatures are holding across the Texas Panhandle tonight into Sunday morning. Low humidity, and a weak disturbance coming down from Colorado and Kansas brings…
Listen + read script →Español →Heat and no relief. Meteorologist Brian James says the Texas Panhandle stays in triple-digit territory tonight into Sunday morning — low humidity, and the only real shot at rain is a slim chance from a weak system…
Listen + read script →Español →Heat warning first. Amarillo's tracking a possible record high today—near 104 degrees. The National Weather Service is calling for mostly sunny skies, southwest winds five to fifteen miles per hour, and morning lows…
Listen + read script →Español →Potter County voters need to know this right now. Election Administration is warning that some people in the area have received unsolicited mail-in ballot applications in the mail. Potter County does not send those out…
Listen + read script →Morning. We're looking at a light local briefing, so we'll move through what's coming and then pivot to state business that touches the Panhandle. Start here: West Texas A&M University's Paul and Virginia Engler College…
Listen + read script →Español →The City of Amarillo entered Stage 1 of its drought contingency plan this week, and what that actually means — and doesn't mean — matters more than the headline. The 60 percent threshold everyone's talking about applies…
Listen + read script →Español →Texas state power is moving fast on data centers. Major companies backing Abbott's development standards as the governor tries to lock in infrastructure control ahead of the primary fight. That's the play — Abbott's…
Listen + read script →Español →Courts and sentencing first. A man accused in a March shooting in Amarillo has been sentenced, according to court documents filed this week. We don't have the name or the length of the sentence yet from the court, but…
Listen + read script →Español →Water infrastructure failure across the city this morning. A 20-inch main broke near East Highway 60 late Tuesday, and crews are still working to restore service to Highland Park, Highland Park ISD, Potter County…
Listen + read script →Español →The City of Amarillo has activated Stage 1 of its Drought Contingency Plan as of today. The city council approved the measure, and now residents are under a voluntary outdoor watering schedule. The plan was built for…
Listen + read script →Español →The City of Amarillo is moving into Stage 1 of its Drought Contingency Plan as of this morning. That means a split watering schedule: odd-numbered addresses water only on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Even-numbered…
Listen + read script →Español →Schools across the Panhandle posted B ratings in the Texas Education Agency's latest accountability rankings released Friday. The TEA measures three areas — Student Achievement, which includes STAAR test results and…
Listen + read script →Español →A deadly wreck and an open investigation. Amarillo Police are searching for the driver of a semi-truck involved in a crash Thursday afternoon on the 3000 block of Fritch Highway. A large piece of concrete fell from that…
Listen + read script →Español →Three people indicted for murder in Randall County. Jeremy Ray, forty-five, was shot in the thirty-nine hundred block of South Tyler Street on May twenty-fifth. He died four days later. Amarillo Police say Jontrell…
Listen + read script →Español →Amarillo City Council moved on air quality this week. The council asked city staff to price out odor-control systems for North Heights and other neighborhoods dealing with sewage smell. That's the immediate ask—get…
Listen + read script →Español →The Panhandle's looking at a water outage next week. Quanah's shutting off service Wednesday morning, August nineteenth, starting at seven-thirty. The city says it needs the downtime to repair two water lines — first…
Listen + read script →Español →Governor Abbott's ordering the state to audit up to 300 projects across Texas, most of them data centers. The directive reworks the timeline that ERCOT, the grid operator, had already set in motion. That's the state…
Listen + read script →Español →A Randall County grand jury has indicted two men on solicitation of prostitution charges stemming from a June sting operation. David Ritchie, 42, and Jorge Lopez-Najera, 24, were among eight people arrested during that…
Listen + read script →Español →A Randall County Grand Jury has indicted two men on solicitation of prostitution charges. David Ritchie, 42, and Jorge Lopez-Najera, 24, were indicted Wednesday. They're the first of eight arrested during a prostitution…
Listen + read script →Español →Three people are in the Randall County Detention Center facing felony murder charges in the death of Jeremy Ray. The 45-year-old was shot in the 3900 block of South Tyler Street on May 25th and died four days later. A…
Listen + read script →Español →Three people indicted on felony murder charges in Amarillo. Jontrell Graves, eighteen; Jaylyn Johnson, eighteen; and Meghan Kern, forty-three. A Randall County Grand Jury brought the charges after Jeremy Ray,…
Listen + read script →Español →Canyon's commissioners adopted their two-thousand twenty-six and twenty-seven budget yesterday. Wage increases for police, three part-time firefighters standing up a community wildfire protection program, a part-time…
Listen + read script →Español →Amarillo police spent Tuesday morning on Paramount Boulevard dealing with a barricaded subject, possibly armed, in the 2000 block. Officers responded and ordered the area cleared while they worked the scene. We don't…
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