
Is your swimming hole safe? Avoiding amoebas and other risks
Swimming in lakes and rivers can carry disease risks, including the dreaded but rare brain-eating amoeba. Here’s expert advice on how you can swim safely.

Swimming in lakes and rivers can carry disease risks, including the dreaded but rare brain-eating amoeba. Here’s expert advice on how you can swim safely.
The rocket testing site has blown through its permitted groundwater allowance three years straight. McGregor, the site’s owner, says it has a plan to offset groundwater use and avoid enforcement penalties.
Local vendors and health officials are struggling to get clarity as Texas prepares to take over the food truck permitting process on July 1.
Cipher Digital has bought some 300 acres near Riesel and is seeking to connect to the state electric grid. Area residents and leaders say they remain in the dark about the details.
The $1.3 million project will slim an eight-block section of the street from four lanes to three and add bike lanes in an effort to make travel safer and smoother.
Lacy Lakeview’s hasty approach to the data center project has alienated the Waco officials who would control water service to the site. “Without the City of Waco agreeing to it, Lacy Lakeview can’t do anything out there and neither can Infrakey," State Rep. Pat Curry said. "Those guys don’t know what the hell they’re doing.”
Barefield fought off a challenge from economic development official Rachel E. Pate, while Mayor Holmes won 83% of the vote. And Lacy Lakeview elected a data center opponent.