Matt Crow

The run-off election for Lubbock’s District Three Council seat will showcase a classic political match-up between two non-incumbents whose governing philosophies are not dissimilar but whose personalities are quite different. The outcome of the race hinges on intangible elements voters can’t quite put their fingers on but will nevertheless influence their vote...

Lubbock City Council incumbents Victor Hernandez and Karen Gibson won re-election this evening, with Hernandez turning back a credible challenge by Frank Gutierrez to keep his District One seat. Hernandez captured 50.59% of the vote; challengers Frank Gutierrez and Lana Bear Moore each captured 37.65% ...

The clear skies of West Texas will provide star gazers a unique opportunity this evening (April 8), when Mars, Earth and the sun will be arranged in a nearly-straight line. NASA astronomers report that every two years, Mars reaches a point in its orbit called "opposition," when the "Red" planet lies directly opposite the sun in Earth's sky...

Starting tonight and going through the weekend you and your family can take in a terrific movie and at the same time help support the Texas South Plains Honor Flight program. The Stars and Stripes Drive In here Lubbock is showing the latest “Captain America” movie – entitled “Captain America: Winter Soldier” – and tonight and tomorrow night, the Drive In will donate 10% of their ticket and concess

Special needs students at Frenship Middle School, their teachers and their families are asking for help with sponsoring several of the student’s extracurricular activities. Among other activities, the funds being raised would support a yearly field trip for the special needs students. Add...

Governor Rick Perry is in Lubbock tomorrow – he’ll help honor Texas Tech Chancellor Kent Hance at a reception on campus and accept an award for his work in rehabilitating drug offenders. Perry will make remarks at an event honoring Texas Tech Chancellor Kent Hance at a reception on campus...

Federal investigators have released their accident report on the fatal airplane crash last year in Littlefield. Investigators say a specific maneuver led to last year's deadly glider crash that killed the pilot,  79-year-old Eddie Hogland and his passenger,  13-year-old Taylor Brown...

Precinct delegates and  elected officials have started the 2014 Lubbock County Republican Party Convention. The convention is being held at Lubbock's Memorial Civic Center. Following an invocation by Pastor Jim Robinson, Party Chairman Carl Tepper welcomed delegates and provided an overview of the convention schedule. ...

Radioactive waste that’s unable to be stored underground in New Mexico could be coming to West Texas. That’s the latest word from Department of Energy that oversees operations at the SE New Mexico Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), which has been closed since last month due to a fire and leak of radiation...

Weather and radar experts are examining what many are calling a “mystery cloud” that appeared on Eastern New Mexico and West Texas radars earlier in the week. U.S. National Weather Service offices in Albuquerque and El Paso have confirmed the reading, but say they have no idea where the several-mile-wide cloud could have come from...