See the progress of the Interstate 35 project through Waco as it began in May 2019 and is expected to continue through 2023.
Crews remove tarps that have shrouded the bridge since April. The overall project is now about 40% complete and should be finished next year, within its original schedule, Waco senior parks planner Tom Balk said.
Some area builders balked this week when consultants reported the city of Waco has the option to add as much as $7,600 in impact fees to the cost of new homes in an effort to offset the tax burden for roads and utilities.
Every time it rained, he listened for the frightening, tell-tale sounds of another car hydroplaning and skidding off of “Dead Man’s Curve.”
Wiley Stem III said after having a hand in nearly every major infrastructure project in Waco since the 1980s, he felt the time was right to step down at city manager.
Waco’s 2020-21 budget likely will set aside money for a new community policing program, fire equipment and the continuation of a small business assistance program created in response to the ongoing pandemic, but may not include employee raises for the first time in nine years.
Traffic lights on Washington Avenue at Seventh and 12th streets have been replaced by stop signs, and the stops will disappear when the project to turn the road two-way begins this fall.
The Texas Department of Transportation will begin a pedestrian infrastructure improvement project along Hewitt Drive on Monday. The span of the project will take place in front of Midway Middle School, from Mars Drive to Panther Way.
Scooters for rent have finally come to downtown and East Waco to stay, along with a team on the ground to sanitize them multiple times a day.
The downtown segment of the Interstate 35 reconstruction project through Waco is beginning to take shape. Crews last week finished installing beams on the 11th-12th Street overpass and will follow suit with the Fourth-Fifth Street bridge next week.
A driver suffered life-threatening injuries Wednesday evening after a wreck involving four vehicles on Loop 340 in Waco, police said.
Lake Shore Drive was temporarily closed Tuesday from Mt. Carmel Drive to Bishop Drive.
Three developments in central Waco will have extra time to finish up construction and still get public funding previously approved by the city council.
A woman who suffered life-threatening injuries in a rollover crash received immediate medical aid after her vehicle came to rest near a clinic staffed with medical professionals Tuesday evening.
Items of interest around the Waco area, in brief.
Take a peek at fixer-uppers with potential to beautiful old homes around Waco
The Earle-Harrison House, one of Waco's oldest homes, and the Pape Gardens soon will reopen to the public, thanks to a recent agreement between the Pape Foundation and Historic Waco.
Read through the obituaries published today in Waco Tribune-Herald.
Police say portions of South Mountain Park and Preserve in Phoenix have been temporarily closed as investigators search for evidence in a homicide. A hiker reported finding a human skull at the preserve on Jan. 14. During a search Saturday, police say detectives located additional human remains and those have been turned over to the Maricopa County Forensic Medical Center. Due to signs of trauma appearing on the skull, police say the death is being investigated as a homicide. They say detectives are actively following up on all leads and are working with the county medical examiner’s office to identify the victim.
Family members are questioning why Kansas City police didn't find a man's body in the cargo area of his own SVU until after they towed it to a Missouri police station earlier this month. Police are defending how they handled the situation. They say they didn't have a search warrant at the time the vehicle was towed on Jan. 17 and the dead man, Adam “A.J.” Blackstock Jr., hadn't been officially reported missing then. Blackstock's family says they just wants answers about what happened to the 24-year-old. The case is being investigated as a homicide.
One of North Carolina’s largest school systems has backed off an academic calendar for next year that would have openly defied a state law that directs when classes can start and end. The Union County Board of Education voted Friday to rescind a 2023-24 school calendar approved last month that would have brought back students on Aug. 9. The school calendar law tells districts that in nearly all cases students can’t return each year until later in August. Some parents had sued over the original calendar. Other smaller districts have carried out or approved calendars that run counter to the law.
Authorities say they are looking for a man who threw a Molotov cocktail at the front door of a synagogue in New Jersey. Police in Bloomfield in Essex County said officers responded at about 9:30 a.m. Sunday to a report of property damage at Temple Ner Tamid, where surveillance video showed a man approaching shortly before 3:30 a.m. Sunday, lighting a Molotov cocktail and tossing it at the door. Police said the glass bottle broke but didn’t cause any damage to the temple, and the suspect fled. Police opened an attempted arson and bias incident investigation. County prosecutors, the FBI and other federal authorities are also investigating.
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Not only did Waco go more than six months without a new murder investigation last year, but overall violent crime also dropped by 8% compared to 2021, police reported.
A man indicted on a murder charge in a January 2022 shooting in Waco pleaded guilty Tuesday to shooting at a Falls County deputy a day after the Waco incident.
A jury convicted an ex-Waco employee Wednesday of assaulting a police officer in 2018 but acquitted him on a charge of trying to take the officer's weapon.
A woman who officials said pointed a shotgun at McLennan County deputies before they shot her two weeks ago in China Spring has been released from a hospital and jailed.
Waco Downtown Farmers Market is aiming to expand to East Waco, offering food and recreational activities at the new Bridge Street Plaza on Wednesday evenings starting in March.
Friday's biannual Project Homeless Connect aimed to provide social services, medical testing, referrals, housing help and other physical goods to people battling housing insecurity in the Waco community.
Despite recent rains and cooler weather, Lake Waco’s level continues to plummet, expected to reach a 450-foot trigger point for Stage 3 water restrictions in mid-February.
Real estate agent Anthony Johnson this week entered the District 4 race in the May 6 Waco City Council election, joining former Council Member Darius Ewing in the contest.