With Odessa City Manager David Vela giving his resignation at Tuesday’s city council meeting, the City of Odessa named its ...

For more than two decades, local filmmaker and horror enthusiast Billy Pon and his crew have been serving up scares and ...

Odessa City Council Member Gilbert Vasquez is back at City Hall after spending seven weeks recovering from a heart attack and ...

The Odessa Police Department has informed the public to avoid traveling in the 3100-5200 blocks of Dixie, University (between ...

An Odessa woman was arrested early Thursday morning after police said surveillance video showed her setting fire to a building. According to an Odessa Police Department report, officers were ...

An Odessa trucking company and one of its drivers are now being sued. Zehl & Associates, a Houston personal-injury firm, is ...

Odessa City Council accepted Vela’s resignation effective Oct. 31 and named Assistant City Manager Aaron Smith interim as a search begins.

His last day will be Friday, Oct. 31; no reason was given for his departure. Assistant City Manager Aaron Smith will serve as ...

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The City Manager’s Office will now review Stoker’s proposal and is expected to bring forward a draft policy for council ...

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