The Odessa Police Department is teaming up with law enforcement agencies across Texas from Aug. 15 through Sept. 1 to crack ...

In this week’s Basin Bites, we visited Arti’s Italian Restaurant, a new business that just opened up in Odessa last weekend.

Out-of-season coaching rule infringements force second-year Ducks football coach Nick DiGati to miss opening games.

O DESSA, Texas (KOSA) - Every year, the Witts camp in Kerrville. This year, the tradition was interrupted when floodwaters forced them to evacuate. Some images Carmen says she can never unsee and the ...

A Russian drone attack struck Odessa in Ukraine on Sunday, causing direct damage to its historic synagogue located in the ...

A disturbing encounter at Music City Mall earlier this week led to the arrest of a 19-year-old Odessa man who police say ...

ODESSA, Texas — Be careful driving on I-20 service roads in Southeast Odessa, according to a reminder from the Odessa Police ...

NewsWest 9 sat down with the college's vice president of student services, Kim McKay, about the new additions.

A fish fry was held Monday evening at Big Daddy’s restaurant in Odessa that aimed to bring community members together. The ...

A multi-vehicle crash in the eastbound lanes and a lane closure in the westbound lanes has caused traffic in both directions ...

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riedrich Miescher discovered the molecule for DNA—or deoxyribonucleic acid—in 1869. Nearly 100 years later, in 1953, a group of scientists discovered DNA's double helix structure, which would confirm ...