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Texas winter storm updates: Sunday brings extreme cold and local power outages
By Texas Tribune Staff, Colleen DeGuzman, Ayden Runnels, Alex Nguyen, Berenice Garcia and Jessica Priest, The Texas Tribune January 24, 2026 While wintry precipitation exits Texas, freezing temperatures will continue Monday over much of the state. The severe weather has triggered hundreds of flight cancellations in Texas and many school districts are closed Monday. While…
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Read MoreTexas Weekly Gas Price Update
January 26, 2026 Average gasoline prices in Texas have risen 4.4 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.40/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 13,114 stations in Texas. Prices in Texas are 5.1 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand 26.5 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The…
Read MoreSWEPCO: Strong, Aligned Restoration Effort Underway Across All Districts
Winter Storm Fern – A National Storm Event with Widespread Impacts What You Need to Know Winter Storm Fern is a nationwide weather event, affecting nearly 250 million people from Mexico to Canada. Across the U.S., more than one million Americans are without power, underscoring the severity of this storm and the regional challenges utilities are…
Read MoreSecond Wave of Ice Storm Slams Region; SWEPCO Linemen Working Through Wind and Ice to Restore Power to Tens of Thousands
Crews Responding Across our Three-State Territory What You Need to Know ● Winter Storm Fern has left about 63,000 SWEPCO customers without power, with the heaviest impacts in Louisiana and Texas as falling ice-covered trees continue to cause new outages. ● Transmission infrastructure and power plants remain stable, and crews have already restored more…
Read MoreJIM “PAPPY” MOORE: Somebody’s Gettin’ Married
By Jim “Pappy” Moore For several decades I routinely got up, showered, shaved, drank a cup of coffee, put on a nice shirt, a nice tie, a suit, and shoes that went with that ensemble. That was my lawyer uniform. I’d mix up the suits, the shirts, the ties. It all depended on my…
Read MoreWinter Storm Fern Tracks Through Northeast Texas
Winter Storm Fern moved through Northeast Texas from Friday evening into Sunday, bringing a devastating combination of freezing rain, sleet, and snow that created catastrophic conditions across the region. Storm Track The storm approached from the southwest on Friday afternoon, with wintry precipitation impacting all of North Texas from Friday night through Monday Severe Weather…
Read MoreTexas winter storm updates: State hunkers down as dangerous weather continues rolling in
By Texas Tribune Staff, Colleen DeGuzman, Ayden Runnels and Alex Nguyen, The Texas Tribune January 24, 2026 An arctic storm is crawling across Texas, bringing frigid temperatures and frozen precipitation that is expected to last into Monday. Much of Texas has or will fall under winter storm warning this weekend. A vast swath of the…
Read MoreSWEPCO Responds as Winter Storm Fern Hits
January 24, 2026 CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD B-ROLL SWEPCO’s ArkLaTex region received significant ice accumulation overnight, causing power outages and hazardous conditions across much of the service area. As of 10:30 a.m. Saturday, about 17,000 SWEPCO customers are without power in southern Arkansas, Northwest Louisiana and Northeast and East Texas. Crews are actively assessing damage and…
Read MoreAs winter storm approaches, Texas officials say the state is ready, won’t repeat 2021 catastrophe
By Joshua Fechter, Alejandra Martinez, Alex Nguyen and Aidan Johnstone, The Texas Tribune January 21, 2026 DALLAS – Nearly five years after Winter Storm Uri sparked widespread power outages and killed hundreds of Texans, officials and residents are once more girding for a round of severe winter weather that will blanket large parts of the…
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