The Ector County Commissioners Court met for several hours with a busy Tuesday agenda for the first meeting of February. Commissioners heard from a number of residents in favor of creating two ...

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ECISD was noted, along with six other school districts in the country, as high poverty districts that have shown a trend in ...

Ahead of the 2025 legislative session, State Representative Brooks Landgraf introduced House Bill 221, which proposed significant reforms to standardized ...

On Tuesday, Ector County commissioners voted to put creating two emergency services districts on the May ballot. The districts would provide Fire and EMS in unincorporated parts of the county. Only ...

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

A new report from researchers at Stanford and Harvard highlights the nationwide challenges of student learning recovery ...

In January's human trafficking operations in the Permian Basin, four victims were rescued – ages 16 months, 7, 18 and ...

School systems where family income is highest are almost four times as likely to see full academic recovery for students, in both reading and math, than school systems where more students come from ...

The Ector County Commissioners Court has a busy Tuesday agenda for the first meeting of February. The meeting is scheduled at 10 a.m. at the Courthouse Annex. A public hearing will be held on the ...

Ector County ISD names Keeley Boyer as the sole finalist for superintendent, following her role as interim superintendent ...

An Odessa man out on bond after his December arrest in which he was accused of harming an Ector County Sheriff’s Office K-9 ...