Work has begun this week on an overpass on State Highway 31 that is meant to improve a dangerous intersection near the planned city of Waco landfill.
Automaking operations and other high-tech ventures are popping up north and south of Waco, and the city stands to benefit from spillover, an e…
Local investors have bought the sprawling complex at 5601 W. Waco Drive occupied by Central Freight Lines, a freight hauler that has grown nat…
Another company founded in Germany will grow in Central Texas, Knauf Insulation announcing it will place a 600,000-square-foot manufacturing p…
McLennan County commissioners Tuesday pledged $3 million toward a mental health crisis center that may reduce the need for law enforcement int…
A McLennan County economic development prospect called “Project Darwin Biggest” would invest $3.5 billion and create about 4,200 jobs, but the…
SpaceX is planning a $150 million expansion of its McGregor test facility into a powerhouse churning out enough rockets to make humanity inter…
Waco’s economy is running like a well-oiled machine, but the availability of people to wait tables or stock shelves is stuck in neutral.
Correction: An earlier version of this story included a photo of construction on Exchange Parkway that was not related to the S2A facility.
A family-owned tire company in Mississippi will spend more than $17 million to build a distribution center in Waco, and city and McLennan Coun…
If help-wanted signs weren’t appearing everywhere and SpaceX and Amazon weren’t promising more than a thousand new jobs between them, news the…
Still glowing from news SpaceX will build a second rocket-related facility in its industrial park, McGregor reportedly is in the running as a …
Larry Plemons has been herding a big brown UPS truck around Central Texas more than 30 years without an accident. But the Bosqueville High Sch…
Gas prices this July Fourth are running about 90 cents higher than last year, but a record number of Texans will put the pedal to the metal an…
Solar panels and wind farms festooning the Central Texas landscape came about, in part, because renewable energy companies pocketed tax breaks…
Floored by Waco’s central location and business philosophy, Uzin Utz broke ground Thursday on a manufacturing plant anchoring a complex that i…
Jessup Housing in Waco is doing so well it did not ask for more public backing to expand its facilities, it just asked for the money already c…
The Greater Waco economy exploded in March, with spending on cars, homes and hotel stays accelerating. So robust is the continuing recovery th…
February's deadly deep freeze gave the cold shoulder to Waco's economy, which suffered declines in retail spending, vehicle sales and hotel re…
Waco has recovered all but about 700 of the 11,000 jobs it lost when COVID-19 reared its ugly head last spring, according to recent economic reports.
Buyers, especially from the West Coast, continue to scout Waco neighborhoods for available homes, but lookers so outnumber inventory that some prospects are bidding more than the asking price, a local real estate agent said Thursday during a discussion of the Greater Waco economy.
McLennan County and city of Waco leaders Tuesday approved local property tax breaks worth $9.45 million over 20 years for the giant Amazon ful…
The Waco economy gets an A for effort in 2020, setting records for homes sold, homes built, spending and general construction despite obstacle…
Sad to hear that Mary Imeri, known to friends and customers as “Mama Baris,” has passed. The local restaurant scene will not be the same without her.
The name Uzin Utz does not flow trippingly off the tongue, but the German company knows plenty about flooring materials and hopes to learn mor…
