Seven Wharton County families received Christmas trees with decorations, a complete holiday meal and gifts in Wharton this year thanks to a health care company.

The Wharton County Leader-Journal, published the first edition of the newly merged Wharton Journal-Spectator and the El Campo Leader-News on March 2 of last year. The merger afforded the newspaper ...

Authors Kristin Hannah, John Grisham, James Patterson and Danielle Steele are among the top books checked out from the Wharton County Library in 2024.

With the holiday season drawing to a close and the calendar turned over to a new year, the next milestone ahead is the return of children to school to begin ...

A deputy investigating a vehicle off the road near Hungerford Sunday found a suspected drunk driver behind the wheel.

Bill Smart and Beautify El Campo Extension Service are picking up the fight to make El Campo shine. Those interested in doing ...

With the turn of the calendar to a new year comes the swearing in of newly elected or re-elected Wharton County of-ficials ...

Tradition says now’s the time to look for a little baby scooting along draped in a banner declaring it to be 2025, and the ...

Wharton County residents had reason to hope for peace and prosperity as the calendar turned to 2025, the weather was largely ...

With the holiday break near, the West Columbia Roughnecks looked to give a present of coal to the Wharton Runnin’ Tigers in ...

The move to Region IV placed the El Campo Ricebirds in one of the tougher districts in the state and after a fourth-placed ...

Going “Postal” was a term used for a person who, without warning, became violent and killed or harmed a co-worker. The term ...