With 4 million new residents expected in the Houston-Galveston region in the next 30 years, officials want to know what the current residents think of how to handle the growth.

Nothing is official yet, but it looks like Texans won’t be voting in party primaries until after Memorial Day — maybe.

The Children’s Advocacy Center is in business ... almost.

Think you’ve got the tastiest mopping sauce or the perfect fall-off-the-bone ribs?  Well if you plan on putting that secret recipe to the test at Wharton County’s most prestigious cook-off, then you better get on board — now.

Brad Wright’s stay in Wharton was short and bittersweet.

City leaders are doing their part to insure a proposed interstate project does not pass the local community by.

After school children at Just Do It Now receive books and school supplies on Thursday from representatives of the A. Phillip Randolph Institute, Tidelands Houston Chapter. The books were on black history commemorating the late principal of Dawson Elementary School, C.W. Dawson. Just Do It Now also received more than 300 books for the library at the Dawson Resource Center.

An East Bernard man was killed, while another resident was injured in a two-vehicle accident Tuesday morning at Texas 60 and FM 1161 near Hungerford.

Bobby Harris, left, manager of K-Bob’s Steakhouse in Wharton, talks to job seekers Sara Leschper and Connie Drake, both of Sealy, while Eric DeFriend of Louise fills out an application. K-Bob’s joined other businesses at the Wharton County Job Fair on Tuesday.