When oil field workers are able to get off their feet at the end of the day, sometimes wild stories fill the downtime. Zach Reese had an outlandish tale for story time, except, unlike some of his ...

PECOS, Texas — Welcome to the Permian Basin, six hours west of Dallas. Compared to the last West Texas oil boom in 2014, there's almost four times more oil flowing in the Permian Basin. Oil and gas ...

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Even with oil prices climbing, people in West Texas say it doesn’t feel like the start of another boom, at least not yet. By J. David Goodman Photographs by Desiree Rios Reporting from the Texas oil ...

Like many Americans, 79-year-old Elester Andrews is feeling the pinch of rising gas prices amidst the United States and Israel’s war with Iran. Andrews, who drove down from Houston to Freeport to fish ...