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Like COVID, measles is revealing how aging infrastructure and doctor shortages leave rural communities vulnerable.

Measles has sickened nearly 150 mostly unvaccinated people in rural West Texas, and a school-age child has died.

The Odessa College NIRA Wrangler Rodeo continues Friday and Saturday at the Ector County Coliseum. Tickets are on sale now at tinyurl.com/cc3rbd6p or can be purchased at the Ector County Coliseum Box ...

ECTOR COUNTY, Texas — Newly elected Ector County Commissioner Samantha Russell is taking steps to ensure her constituents’ voices are heard. In an effort to gauge public opinion, Russell ...

Most of Texas' measles cases are in Gaines County (80), where the outbreak began in the local Mennonite community. Cases have also been reported in Terry, Dallam, Dawson, Ector, Lubbock ...

the hospital system and the Texas Department of State Health Services announced Wednesday. The child was not a resident of Lubbock County, Covenant Health said during a news conference Wednesday.

Dr. Martin Ortega is a family medicine physician for Texas Tech Physicians of the Permian Basin-Odessa in in Ector County, where the county health department told the Odessa American that a child ...

ODESSA, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) – In a decision that could reshape county government operations, Ector County officials are set to vote tomorrow on a long-awaited agenda item: deciding which offices will be ...

Trump administration plans new travel ban. Here's who could be affected. ‘I’ve never seen anything like this’: One startup is trying to use Trump’s anti-regulation rhetoric to get an ...