The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

The usually calm waters of Matagorda Bay on the Texas Gulf Coast hold the secret of a once thriving town that was literally washed off the map by not one, but two deadly hurricanes. Indianola, in ...

Through the cartographers’ art, visitors can chart the changing landscape of Waco from its earliest existence in the mid-1800s as a trading post to the boom years of the early ...

Based in Odessa, Texas, the Odessa American was founded in 1940. Odessa American 700 N. Grant Ave., Suite 800 Odessa, TX 79761-4590 (432) 337-4661 ...

The Texas General Land Office (GLO) has completed a three-year digital overhaul of its most extensive historical map collection, making more than 8,000 surveying documents accessible online for ...

The Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum (PPHM) has told the story of Texas settlers for almost a century. At West Texas A&M University, we believe the PPHM, while important to our region, is even ...

The thriving Texas town that literally vanished from the maps In 1886, Indianola was devastated by a hurricane so strong that it became a ghost town virtually overnight. To stream KVUE on your ...