The Texas Constitution is a living document that can be modified to suit the needs and wants of Texas citizens. Voters across Texas will decide on 17 proposed State constitutional amendments in the No...

According to Amarillo ISD, it is the only school district in Texas that operates its own independent bakery. The Amarillo Tribune stopped by the AISD bakery and met the bakers behind the bread served ...

A Texas bill that would allow private citizens to sue anyone who manufactures and provides abortion medication to Texans recently passed both chambers and is now awaiting Gov. Greg Abbott’s signature.

For Hunger Action Month, the Amarillo Tribune is highlighting the Market on Tierra Blanca, Randall County’s full-service food pantry. The Market on Tierra Blanca serves a variety of clients, from seni...

Over 800 bills passed in Texas’s 89th Regular Legislative Session went into effect on Sept. 1, including the “school choice” bill, a bill establishing the Texas Advanced Nuclear Energy Office and a bi...

Since the Amarillo Tribune began publishing in June of last year, we have received hundreds of thoughtful questions from readers about how we operate and what we stand for. As Amarillo’s first 501(c)(...

Overview: As part of our ongoing coverage of the Fermi America Advanced Intelligence and Energy Campus coming to Amarillo, the Amarillo Tribune heard from and spoke to officials with Fermi for more de...

Former Amarillo Mayor Trent Sisemore has been named Fermi America’s Community Lead for the ongoing AI hyper-grid project currently in development.

On Friday, the States of Florida and Texas filed to intervene in the years-long case in the Northern District Court of Texas, Amarillo Division, regarding the ease of access to mifepristone, a drug co...

Patsy’s Place is a transitional home that offers housing and recovery programs for women struggling with addiction after incarceration. The space was named after Patsy Britting, who helped establish t...

The Old Route 66 Association of Texas and the Big Texan Steak Ranch partnered to launch the Texas Route 66 Signage Project on Thursday. The collaboration, which includes the Texas Department of Transp...

The City of Canyon Commission met Tuesday, where they approved tax increases and discussed proposed downtown renovations, including a railroad crossing rebuild, improved pedestrian spaces, a public re...

Billy came to Amarillo for a fresh start, but needed some help getting started. The staff and clients at the Salvation Army of Amarillo helped him figure out where to begin. Later, he went to Transfor...

Friday morning, Gov. Greg Abbott announced a second special legislative session to convene at noon that day, immediately following the adjournment sine die of the first session. Though the House adjou...

United Way released its Community Status report for the year 2024 for Potter and Randall counties. The annual report measures social service programs’ use and identifies what services may be needed in...

The Amarillo City Council directed staff to prepare the budget without a proposed street maintenance fee, and asked them to try to find around $2 million more to increase the percentage of raises the ...

Since 2021, the Potter County District Clerk’s Office has seen a mass exodus of employees. Former employees told us 28 out of 30 have left, and this year, Potter County reached a confidential settleme...

At the Amarillo City Council meeting on Tuesday, the council discussed the City’s procurement process, changes to food establishment permitting, and asked for the staff to reassess proposed contracts ...

Hope Village, which currently houses a coffee shop, a deli and an ice cream shop, employs Amarilloans with intellectual and physical disabilities and prepares them to enter the outside workforce. Its ...

Texas House Democrats have been out of the chamber for over a week, preventing the House from taking action on a new congressional redistricting map, along with all other legislation proposed before t...

Saturday night, at the George Washington Carver Elementary Academy Campus, dozens of Carver School graduates, alongside their friends and family, celebrated the 75th anniversary of the historic school...

Amarillo Little Theatre will present “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” starting Aug. 14 in the ALT Adventure Space. ALT’s production of the play featuring the iconic Nurse Ratched corresponds with the...

The George Washington Carver Elementary Academy campus, located at 1905 NW 12th, is a magnet school nestled in Amarillo’s North Heights community. On Saturday at 6:00 p.m., the auditorium will be fill...

The Potter County Commissioners Court heard an update on findings from the  architectural firm the court is consulting with for the jail expansion project.

Leaders from all 10 Texas Public Broadcasting Stations from across the state met at Amarillo College on Wednesday as Panhandle PBS began its annual two-day meeting, which will run through Thursday.

The Amarillo Senior Citizens Association, now operating as the 55+ Club of Amarillo, will host a parking lot party on Aug. 9 to raise funds for its new facility. The 55+ Club hopes the new Senior Acti...

Budgets workshops for both Amarillo and Canyon start Tuesday. City officials will hear details behind upcoming proposed budgets to inform what property tax rate to set for the year.

The Texas Legislature reconvenes its special session today after taking a long weekend. On the agenda: Congressional redistricting. HB 4 passed out of committee on Saturday on a party-line vote and is...

Four firefighters with the Amarillo Fire Department were dispatched to Kerrville to offer assistance following the July 4 flooding. While there, they covered the Ingram Fire Station to relieve the per...

The Barfield, Autograph Collection, is becoming a Record Texas Historic Landmark. The downtown hotel was Amarillo’s first skyscraper, built, owned and run by Dora Oliver-Eakle.

On Thursday, Amarillo Police Department Assistant Chief Kenneth Funtek announced his retirement effective Aug. 11.

This year has seen changes to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and to Texas in-state tuition laws for undocumented students. Amarillo College and West Texas A&M University explained h...

The Amarillo Tribune has continued investigating readers' questions about Fermi America’s power generation and AI datacenter campus near the Pantex Plant.

Nahryah Hilesta Ines Hayes, 22, who was indicted with one count of murder and eight counts of aggravated assault/mass shooting in February, filed a $120 thousand bond last week, with Freedom Bail Bond...

Members of the Amarillo City Council confirmed that George Hyde of Hyde Kelley LLP currently has no work assigned from the council. The Amarillo Tribune analyzed the invoices the City has received so ...

Overview: Nearly a year ago, the Arden Rd. crossover between the north and southbound lanes of the Loop closed for a TxDOT study. The area’s residents have been trying to get a stoplight installed at ...

Overview: Last week, the House approved a plan that rescinded $1.1 billion allocated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The Amarillo Tribune sat down with High Plains Public Radio and Panhand...

The Amarillo Tribune received community questions regarding how Fermi America and Texas Tech University System’s collaborative energy-driven AI complex would generate power. According to Fermi America...

Amarillo’s recent rash of structure fires continued early Wednesday morning with a fire near SW 3rd and Austin. Amarillo Fire Department Community Liaison Jeff Justus said one victim was treated for c...

FILL WITH HOPE is a nonprofit organization serving children across 23 schools within the boundaries of the Canyon Independent School District. FWH provides snack foods to last a weekend to any child, ...

The Amarillo City Council hosted a regular meeting on Tuesday. Due to upcoming annual budget workshops, the next city council meeting will be Aug. 12, not Aug. 5.

A former City of Amarillo employee is sentenced for embezzling funds from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD. Vanessa Robinson is the second co-conspirator to be sen...

Potter County Republican Chair Daniel Rogers and four others filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security, State, Justice, and Health and Human Services on Monday in the Northern ...

As the city works to improve drainage and prevent flooding, more drainage and stormwater is heading to East Amarillo Creek. Residents who live along the creek say they have lost several feet of land t...

Cmdr. Shane Chadwick and other area officers had planned to head south to assist with a cold case even before the floods hit Hill Country. In the ongoing search efforts, they had an idea to use the dr...

“The Blind,” a play by Amarillo native Jeni Stennis, discusses the 1997 killing of Brian Deneke through a rarely featured character: the wider community. “The Blind” is heading to the Camden Fringe Fe...

An 18-year-old, Kevin Hunt, was detained on July 2 and has been charged with possession of components of explosives. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, multiple local law enforcement ...

At a ceremony hosted by West Texas A&M University and the City of Canyon on Tuesday, Hospital Drive in Canyon was renamed Monty Platt Drive in honor of Cpl. Monty Platt, the only University Police Dep...

Alex Fairly resigned from the Amarillo Economic Development Corporation board of directors on Tuesday. The Amarillo Tribune caught the tail end of the meeting, and as he was exiting, Fairly had no com...

Pantex and the Wild West Wildlife Rehabilitation Center recently teamed up to save a bull snake and an abandoned owl fledgling found on Pantex land. The collaboration also found a new home for a famil...