The Wharton County Leader-Journal, published the first edition of the newly merged Wharton Journal-Spectator and the El Campo Leader-News on March 2 of last year. The merger afforded the newspaper ...

Wharton County residents had reason to hope for peace and prosperity as the calendar turned to 2025, the weather was largely ...

The Wharton County Youth Fair opens on March 28 and runs until April 5, but preparations are underway and deadlines are fast ...

More Information The Texas House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the Texas State Legislature. Alongside the Texas ...

Former President Jimmy Carter spent a lifetime doing good deeds, but he's especially well known for his homebuilding sprees with Habitat for Humanity.

The end of December isn't just a time to make resolutions; in Texas, it's also peak fireworks season. That means residents ...

When Trey Wharton decided to run for Texas State Representative District 12, he knew that goals and priorities would be front and center of many conversations moving forward. So in September, he took ...

The sinkhole was discovered just before 8 a.m. Thursday. It's located in the right shoulder of the right lane of Route 80.

Possible thunderstorms could bring isolated tornadoes into Saturday night in Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia, ...

The highway's guardrail still hung suspended in the air across the gaping 40-foot-wide (12-meter) hole, which opened up when ...

Footage has been posted on social media showing two tornadoes hitting the Wharton and Harris counties in Texas on Thursday.

Storms across both the Western and Southern United States threaten to disrupt flights as millions of holiday travelers ...