The 2020-21 flu season in McLennan County has proven an exceptional one, because it essentially never arrived.
Spending anything approaching $1 billion to erect and repair buildings in the Waco Independent School District, including the possibility of a new Waco High School costing as much as $140 million, would go forward in the coming years only with community support, said Trustee Stephanie Ybarra Korteweg, a two-term District 2 incumbent on the Waco ISD school board.
Texas coronavirus cases haven't surged since the lifting of a statewide mask order. At least for now, dire predictions of a new wave have not come true, prompting a mix of theories.
Linda Sirkel’s parents took her to Lions Park when she was a young girl, and Sirkel, in turn, took her kids, her grandkids and now her great-g…
The Waco-McLennan County Public Health District has canceled Johnson & Johnson vaccine clinics scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday after t…
Storytelling flavors much of Aaron Konzelman’s creative life after more than two decades as a songwriter, musician and church worship leader.
A fifth of McLennan County residents 16 and older had been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by Friday as public shot clinics continued and the st…
Local public school districts whose budgets have been strained by pandemic-related costs over the last year are waiting on the state, with mil…
Show up wearing steel-toed shoes and willing to learn a trade, and a new program supported by Prosper Waco and the Cen-Tex African American Ch…
Jacob Deckard was the first baby born at Providence Health Center’s Women’s and Children’s Center when it opened its doors in 1996. Now 24 yea…
The national champion Baylor University basketball team flew into Waco Regional Airport shortly after 2 p.m. Tuesday, arriving to a green-and-…
McLennan Community College students in the fall passed classes with an in-person element at a higher rate than online-only classes, and the ga…
INDIANAPOLIS — Nearly two decades ago, Scott Drew decided to leave his comfort zone at tiny Valparaiso for the scandal-plagued basketball prog…
McLennan County COVID-19 vaccine providers are seeing shorter wait times for patients to get appointments, even in the first week with every T…
St. Francis on the Brazos Catholic Church was able to resume its annual Good Friday Stations of the Cross tradition, portraying the final suff…
February's deadly deep freeze gave the cold shoulder to Waco's economy, which suffered declines in retail spending, vehicle sales and hotel re…
A federal judge in Waco has dismissed a lawsuit from a Baylor University student who sued the university seeking refunds and other compensatio…
So much could be said about Phillip Perry and the long year since he became McLennan County’s first casualty of COVID-19.
Pfizer announced Wednesday that its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and strongly protective in kids as young as 12, a step toward possibly beginning shots in this age group before they head back to school in the fall.
One year ago, Texas travelers were paying about 75 cents per gallon less for gasoline. COVID-19 was beginning to stir, travel was discouraged,…
Waco ISD was one of the first organizations in McLennan County touched by the pandemic’s tragedies when G.W. Carver Middle School Principal Ph…
Union Hall, the food hall at Eighth Street and Franklin Avenue downtown, is aiming to open a second location in the Woodway area and put out a…
When Dr. Jackson Griggs of Waco Family Medicine thinks of the end game for the COVID-19 pandemic, he envisions a series of paving stones, with…
Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect that the Waco Convention Center has been open on a limited basis even before the new cap…
Baylor University basketball fans torn between to Sweet 16 squads toss coins into the air and wait for the bounce. Heads they win, tails they …
