The Ector County ISD Board of Trustees will have a special meeting at 6 p.m. Feb. 28 in the first floor board room of the administration building, 802 N. Sam Houston Ave., to discuss an offer to ...

Ector County Commissioners will decide on Tuesday what all offices will move to the new courthouse being built at the site of the current United States Post Office in Downtown Odessa. The county ...

The Ector County Health Department has confirmed an infant has been infected with the measles. The baby is too young to be ...

The department will offer the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella vaccine at their office amidst measles outbreak starting Feb. 27.

Schools take precautionary measures and provide information to residents as Ector County reports first case of measles.

Measles is a respiratory virus that can survive in the air for up to two hours. Up to 9 out of 10 people who are susceptible ...

Ector County reports a measles case amid Texas outbreak, with 90 cases statewide, mostly among the unvaccinated.

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Jacob Rodriguez, 19, was arrested for multiple charges and has been booked into jail on a combined $150,000 bond.

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The number of measles cases in Texas has grown to 90 with two more West Texas counties reporting infections, according to the ...

Sixteen of the 90 patients have been hospitalized and two more West Texas counties – Dawson and Ector – are now reporting their first cases. Gaines County now has the largest number of measles ...