Lubbock TX

LUBBOCK, TX (NEWS RELEASE) - UMC Health System announced today that it has earned top honors for clinical quality from Healthgrades, the #1 site Americans use to find a doctor or hospital. Among UMC’s recognitions is the Vascular Surgery Excellence Award™, which places the hospital among the top 10% nationwide for Vascular Surgery. UMC was also named one of Healthgrades America’s 50 Best Hospitals for Vascular Surgery™ and earned the Five-Star Recipient for Carotid Procedures recognition.

A Lubbock judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Jennifer Kurlander against the creators of the 'Intoxicology' podcast, which had accused her of involvement in a 20-year-old homicide case.

Stephanie Hill was known around Lubbock as warm, well-liked, and close with her friends. More than two decades after her death, police are still looking for answers about what happened that Memorial Day night.

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - As the competition for water across Texas grows, some state leaders are pointing toward the Permian Basin. Produced water comes up during oil drilling. For every barrel of oil drilled, an average of six barrels of water come up. Lubbock State Senator Charles Perry says that equates to about 26 million barrels of water a day.

For many longtime cotton farmers in the Texas High Plains, the 2026 drought sparked flashbacks to catastrophic harvests of the past. Miserably dry seasons forced farmers in America’s largest cotton-producing region to abandon massive portions of their dryland crop, including 72 percent in 2022 and 66 percent in 2011.

A flood watch is in effect for much of West and Central Texas and southeast New Mexico as moisture from Vance, a Pacific storm that reached hurricane strength earlier this week, streams north. The National Weather Service warns of potentially life-threatening flash flooding from tonight, Oct. 29, into the weekend, with Midland-Odessa, Lubbock, Del Rio and surrounding communities in the target zone.

Highs Thursday will range from the lower to the upper 70s.

LUBBOCK, Texas — Multiple agencies responded to a structure fire in New Deal Thursday morning. The Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office received a call about a house of fire at 7:33 a.m. Thursday. LCSO said deputies with the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office responded to the home located in the 9600 block of North Boston Ave, near […]

A 40-year-old Lubbock woman, Rosalinda Gonzalez, passed away Thursday morning after falling from a semi-truck she was clinging to on North Oak Avenue.

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Former Lubbock City Councilman Randy Christian died earlier this month, two days before his 75th birthday, after fighting different cancers and different symptoms for most of his life. Friends said Christian wrote songs, supported others in recovery and posted how grateful he was for his family...