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Editor’s Note: Jack Becker is the editor of Caprock Chronicles and is a Librarian Emeritus from Texas Tech University. He can be reached at [email protected]. Today’s article about the historic Bledsoe home is the second of a two-part series by frequent contributor Chuck Lanehart, Lubbock attorney and award-winning W

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - A Lubbock community group held a protest Saturday evening at Clapp Park as part of a national day of action against data centers, gathering signatures for a petition seeking an 18-month moratorium on data center development in the city. The “Citizens of Lubbock Against Data Centers”...

LUBBOCK, Texas — Vision’s Salons will be hosting their 2nd annual Back to School event on Sunday, August 9th, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., to help kids start off the school year strong. Vision’s Salon, located at 4110 34th Street, will offer free haircuts for kids, free hot dogs and hamburgers and free backpacks […]

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Lubbock County Sheriff Kelly Rowe says the county detention center is overdue for significant repairs and expansion, with physical deterioration and aging technology threatening the facility’s standing as a model jail in Texas. Rowe said the jail’s population has grown from 1,000 inmates when it

In Lubbock, you can spot the same familiar faces everywhere — the cowboy in boots at the feed store, the sports mom loading a cooler into her SUV, the Tech fan who bleeds red and black year-round.

On Wednesday, Facebook took down the sometimes viral and sometimes controversial The806er page. On Thursday – as a frenzied debate about the page appeared on other Facebook pages around town – The806er’s owner told LubbockLights.com, “I’ll be back.”. On Friday, he was. “I got a...

Downtown Slaton hosts a banana pudding festival where a $25 pass gets you four cold puddings — including one wild card that skips bananas entirely. Last year it was Key Lime Pie.

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Stealth Energy Services is relocating its headquarters from Odessa to Levelland, bringing with it nearly $4 million in capital investment and up to 100 full-time jobs, according to the Levelland Economic Development Corporation. The LEDC announced a 10-year economic development partnership with

Lubbock, Texas is flat, friendly, and easy to navigate — a mid-sized city where the same familiar faces keep showing up and the best view of the sunset happens to be from the roof of a parking garage.

From quiet outskirts with starry skies to central Lubbock's longtime businesses, every neighborhood has its own loyal crowd.