Carlos Nogueras

Mar 21, 2024 | texastribune.org | Carlos Ramos |Carlos Nogueras

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. ODESSA — Maria del Carmen’s body went stiff in her living room Tuesday night when the television news broadcast announced yet another update on the new Texas immigration law. Her eyes were glued to the screen as she tried to make sense of the bold letters.

Mar 11, 2024 | texastribune.org | late February |Carlos Ramos |Carlos Nogueras

Key coverage Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. MIDLAND — Two newborns living with their families in the same West Texas neighborhood were earlier this year diagnosed with botulism, a rare — and in some cases, fatal — illness caused by a toxin that attacks the body’s nerves.

Mar 3, 2024 | sourcenm.com | Martha Pskowski |Carlos Nogueras

IMPERIAL — Mounds of dirt towered over Bill Wight, who stared helplessly at the piles that had once been pasture for his cattle. After a few moments, he turned his head and surveyed a vast pool of water that had spilled over his land after an abandoned well exploded in early December. The water that sprang from the forgotten hole drilled searching for oil or water contained so much salt that it scrubbed the life off the land. It decimated the soil.

Mar 3, 2024 | texastribune.org | Carlos Nogueras

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. CANADIAN — Every time she hears a firetruck, Linda Vigil’s heart jumps. Last Tuesday, as a fast-moving grass fire surrounded her hometown from all directions, she closed up her flower shop and rushed to pick up her teenage daughter and son from school. Unsure of where to go, the three fled south. Vigil had been keeping track of the fires through social media.

Mar 1, 2024 | texastribune.org | Carlos Nogueras

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. FRITCH — Blankets. Family photos. Toiletries. An old prom dress. These were some of the personal belongings Deana McBroom organized into piles when she heard fires had begun to encroach on her neighborhood. At a moment’s notice, she could just take them. There was still time, she said. Then, on Tuesday, her phone rang. The fire had breached her neighbor’s backyard.