Some days, when the snow is falling in giant wet clumps outside our windows, and the Panhandle wind starts blowing it sideways, it just makes sense to take a break from work and run outside to play. That’s what staffers Cheri Smith (with daughter Lily) and Mary Smithee did on Tuesday afternoon, and it was great fun for about as long as it took to shoot this photo, before the frigid cold drove them back inside.

AMARILLO—Xcel Energy customers in Texas will receive a one-time, $39.4 million refund in their June billing cycle related to a continued drop in prices for power-plant fuel and the increased use of low-cost wind-energy resources.

Eleven students from Baker Elementary and Canadian Middle School competed in the annual Hemphill County Spelling Bee on Tuesday, Feb. 25, at the Texas Crown Performance Hall.

Texas voters will head to the polls next Tuesday, March 3, to determine who will be the Democratic and Republican nominees for federal, state, and county offices in the Nov. 3, 2020, general election.