Big Country schools are gearing up for their first days of class. Most begin next week but a few like Merkel, Winters and ...

Former Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke will hold a town hall at the 201 Mesquite Event Center Sunday afternoon.

The repurposed former Lincoln Middle School (and Abilene High, before that) celebrated the final structural steel laid for the ongoing project.

Officials held a topping-out ceremony for Abilene Heritage Square Tuesday, celebrating the final steel I-beam to be installed.

"We are in fundraising right now," said architect Mitch Wright, who led the cleanup effort and gave a brief presentation about the arboretum's future. "Bill Senter kicked it off with a $30,000 grant.