As you’ve read on our front page, the Wharton County Leader-Journal has been sold to another newspaper group. Hartman Newspapers sold the Leader-Journal, East Bernard Express and two other community ...

El Campo main streets are being targeted with a beauti-fication effort aimed at busi-nesses. Stores along those main business corridors can get up to $500 or 50% of the project cost to do things like ...

Maybe the lesson this Christmas season is that even if turnabout is fair play, at some point, enough is enough. Start with the specious lawsuits brought against President-elect Don-ald Trump, to the ...

Wharton County residents had reason to hope for peace and prosperity as the calendar turned to 2025, the weather was largely mild, and while prices created struggles for many, crime was low and ...

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 ...

The Wharton County Youth Fair opens on March 28 and runs until April 5, but preparations are underway and deadlines are fast ...

A $1 million federal grant will pay 90% of El Campo’s cost to ensure utilities will con-tinue to operate even during a blackout.

The El Campo Elks Lodge will host their annual Hoop Shoot for area youth coming in 2025.

Allen was a champion calf roper in college and the first left-handed roper to ever make it to National Finals in 1960. He didn’t brag about it, in fact he down-played his roping prow-ess, but El Campo ...