Kids Find a Home in the Texas Panhandle
A philanthropist who wanted to give kids a place of their own founded a famous ranch in the Texas Panhandle.
View ArticleA Christmas Blizzard
We’ll celebrate the Christmas holiday by recounting a Christmas blizzard of long ago, when Santa traveled across the open range of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. It seems that jolly old St. Nick...
View ArticleTexas Panhandle Farmers Participate in Water Conservation Project
Motivated by water district regulations and a falling water table, a handful of farmers in the Texas Panhandle are participating in a water conservation project. Farmers like Harold Grall, are...
View ArticleTexas Panhandle Communities: Weather Warning Systems
While communities in the Texas Panhandle work to improve severe weather warning systems and equipment, experts say the best plan is your own.
View ArticleTexas Wind Energy Production: West Texas Leads
Texas leads the nation in wind energy production, and a lot of that wind power comes from the panhandle. A recent article from State Impact Texas features a map showing annual wind energy production...
View ArticleSherman County Big Snow
In the fall of 1904, the neighbors of the Texas Panhandle got together to drive their cattle to Liberal, Kansas. A blizzard caught them, and they were gone for three weeks. Listen to Dave Miller tell...
View ArticleDown to the last drop: The Texas Panhandle water crisis
If you ask Dale Artho about climate change, and the predictions scientists are making, he’ll say there’s no point in discussing the doomsday prophecies. It’s already happened in Vega, Texas. He can...
View ArticleTexas Panhandle War Museum and Education Center gets commissioners' blessing
Veterans in the Texas Panhandle got the OK to build a state-of-the-art museum and education center. Randall County commissioners voted to allow construction of the Texas Panhandle War Museum and...
View ArticleRandall County commissioners vote to give wind farm significant tax break
Texas Panhandle commissioners agreed to give a big tax break to Chermac Energy reports the Amarillo Globe-News. Randall County commissioners recently voted to allow the proposed wind farm to pay about...
View ArticlePerryton's Ryan Culwell evokes Springsteen's 'Nebraska' on new album
Sometimes you’ve got to leave home… to see home. That’s how Rolling Stone says it was for Ryan Culwell. Rolling Stone’s Andrew Leahey writes:
View ArticleTexas Panhandle No Longer High and Dry
Half of the dry counties in the state of Texas have been in the Panhandle; however this number has dropped significantly over the past decade. The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission began tracking...
View ArticleSpanish Company to Build Wind Tower Manufacturing Plant in Amarillo
More wind power is headed to the High Plains. A Spanish steel company has announced plans to build a manufacturing plant in the Texas panhandle, according to the Houston Chronicle. GRI Renewable...
View ArticleA West Texas Writer Returns Home from New York, and Finds Himself Pleasantly...
HPPR's Jonathan Baker recently returned home to Canyon, Texas, after living in New York City. He was struck by the differences and unexpected similarities between the Big Apple and small-town West...
View ArticleThe Limit Does Not Exist
You know, there’s a particular line in Thoreau’s “Walden” where it says,“I do not wish to be anymore busy with my hand than is necessary. My head is hands and feet. I feel all my best faculties...
View ArticlePeople of the Plains: Behind the Mic
During the Fall Semester, HPPR and a communications class partnered together to spotlight the people who call the High Plains home. Cindee Talley had the opportunity to sit down with some of the...
View ArticleTexas Panhandle Remembers a Local Treasure
Last week the Amarillo Globe News remembered a man who had a powerful and lasting impact on the Texas Panhandle. Roy Turner died this month at age 88. Turner was one of the individuals responsible for...
View ArticleDrought Conditions Spread Across Texas Panhandle
The encroaching drought situation in the Texas Panhandle is quickly becoming critical, says myplainview.com. The latest Water Weekly chart on soil moisture conditions, released Monday by the Texas...
View ArticleKids Find a Home in the Texas Panhandle
A philanthropist who wanted to give kids a place of their own founded a famous ranch in the Texas Panhandle.
View ArticleA Christmas Blizzard
We’ll celebrate the Christmas holiday by recounting a Christmas blizzard of long ago, when Santa traveled across the open range of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. It seems that jolly old St. Nick...
View ArticleTexas Panhandle Farmers Participate in Water Conservation Project
Motivated by water district regulations and a falling water table, a handful of farmers in the Texas Panhandle are participating in a water conservation project. Farmers like Harold Grall, are...
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