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Southwest Power Pool, Xcel Energy, and regional co-ops resume normal operations

5 years ago By News Staff

AMARILLO—The Southwest Power Pool moved to normal operating status at 10 pm Saturday, signaling the end of a power emergency across its 14-state footprint that includes Xcel Energy’s Texas and New Mexico service area along with regional electric cooperatives and municipal utilities.

Southwest Power Pool Headquarters

Canadian Apartments to be offered at March 2 Sheriff’s Sale

5 years ago By News Staff

Canadian Apartments to be offered at March 2 Sheriff’s Sale The Canadian Apartment complex, located at 203 Birch St., will be offered for sale on the steps of Hemphill County Courthouse next Tuesday, March 2.

Canadian Apartments

Xcel customers are protected from extreme billing spikes

5 years ago By News Staff

AMARILLO—Winter Storm Uri made electricity more expensive to produce because of shortages in natural gas used to fuel area power plants, but Xcel Energy customers in Texas and New Mexico will be protected from the extreme billing spikes that are making news in other parts of Texas.

Bills

Hemphill County COVID test positives remain low as hospital vaccine distribution continues

5 years ago By News Staff

New positive tests for the coronavirus continued to dramatically decline in Hemphill County this week. On Wednesday, the Hemphill County Hospital District lab announced zero new positive cases of COVID-19 among in-county residents over the last seven days.

COVID

CISD Superintendent discusses winter weather, career and technology programs, in Wednesday board meeting

5 years ago By News Staff

Canadian ISD board members met last Wednesday in the midst of an epic winter storm that closed school here for two days and caused a power grid blackout that shut down some parts of Texas for most of the week.

Classroom

State Capital Highlights

5 years ago By Gary Borders

Millions of Texans dealing with water supply issues Warmer temperatures over the weekend and continuing this week melted most of the snow from the state’s roadways and roofs.

State Capital Highlights

Dangerous back-to-back winter storm systems threaten lives, livestock, property

5 years ago By News Staff

Cold air poured south into the U.S. this week, as arctic high pressure stretched from Canada all the way across the border into northern Mexico.

Hemphill County rancher Alan Hale took this photo of his Angus cows lined up for breakfast, then turned his attention to chopping the ice in one of the stock tanks and unfreezing the sucker rod on the windmill

State Capital Highlights

5 years ago By Gary Borders

Snow, ice, single-digit temps blanket the state Texans from Lubbock to Longview shivered under singledigit temperatures as their week began, with snow and ice creating dangerous road conditions throughout the state. Gov.

State Capital Highlights

Hemphill County Hospital reports only one COVID case in 10 days

5 years ago By News Staff

On Wednesday, the Hemphill County Hospital District lab announced the first case of COVID-19 after 10 consecutive days of zero positive test results in the county. Only six cases remain active among county residents, according to this latest report.

COVID

The Main Problem: Council delays action on downtown parking restrictions after hearing public’s concerns

5 years ago By News Staff

After hearing public concerns about a proposal to establish no-parking zones in downtown Canadian, council members tabled action on an ordinance revising the city code and agreed to research the issue in more depth.

This two-vehicle collision in October 2020 occured at the intersection of Main and Third Streets, and resulted when the driver of this Buick Encore entered the intersection without seeing the oncoming pickup truck, driven by a city of Canadian employee. No injuries were reported, and the driver was cited for failure to yield right-of-way.

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