It Was Twenty Years Ago Today … Avinger cheerleader Cassidi Alford makes snow cones at Johnson Creek Park Sunday, July 2, ...

Fifteen years ago, Longview wasn’t the best place to be a dog, cat or other animal in need. The understaffed, underfunded and overcrowded Humane Society of Northeast Texas — the local animal shelter — ...

A firearm sale that ended with a robbery at gunpoint landed a Longview man a 10-year prison sentence. Dkalen Kelly, 25, pleaded guilty in June to a charge of aggravated robbery stemming from an ...

The second annual Gladewater Jazz & Independence Festival returns to Main Street on July 3–4, bringing two full days of live jazz music and community celebration. The festival is produced by Jackson ...

Gov. Greg Abbott called for blocking new data center development in rural parts of the state during a campaign stop this week in East Texas. “We must prohibit them from building AI data centers in ...

LONGVIEW — Graveside services are scheduled for Mr. Lamon Espy, 87, of Longview, 11:00 a.m., Friday, July 3, 2026 at Grace Hill Cemetery. Viewing, Thursday July 2 ...

CARTHAGE — Funeral services for Mrs. Tona Jeanette James Lawhorn, 73, of Buncombe, Texas, were held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, at Hawthorn Funeral Home Chapel. Interment followed in Six ...

Longview’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Board has given its blessing to a proposal that could see ownership of Temple Emanu-el transferred to the city. The proposal will now be forwarded to the City ...

GILMER — Leaders of four East Texas counties voted Tuesday to take part in a proposed regional groundwater conservation district, which they say is the only way the region can protect one of its most ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Dallas will host the Republican Party’s first-ever national midterm convention Sept. 9-10, putting Texas at the center of the GOP’s effort to ...

It Was Twenty Years Ago Today… Shawn Hara, right, with the City of Longview, holds a trash barrel for his wife, Bethany, as she decorates it with her hand print Saturday, July 1, 2006. The City of ...

It Was Twenty Years Ago Today… Shelby Crittenden of Gilmer chases a pig in the Greased Pig contest Saturday, July 1, 2006 during the Rockin’ H Cowboy Fellowship Cowboy Fun Day in Diana. (Courtney Case ...