UPTON COUNTY, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- The Upton County Sheriff’s Office has issued a travel alert amid multiple road closures ...

The rapidly-growing sinkhole in Upton County is the latest of many problems caused by old wells in the Permian Basin. A sinkhole in Upton County formed around an oil well that was plugged in the ...

UPTON COUNTY, Texas — There will be possible road closures in Upton County Friday ahead of the dust storms and damaging winds coming to the Permian Basin, according to the Upton County Sheriff's ...

UPTON COUNTY — A sinkhole around an old well is growing at an alarming rate on the Kelton Ranch in this West Texas county. Radford Grocery #17 was originally drilled as an oil well in the ...

The Weston County Sheriff’s Office has been handling the investigation into a report that a dog was shot in Upton in late ...

The Kelton Ranch is a few miles outside McCamey in rural Upton County. McCamey is one of countless Texas towns formed in an oil boom. Wildcatter George McCamey struck oil in 1925 and soon several ...

A sinkhole in Upton County formed around an oil well that was plugged in the 1970s. The property owners and visitors stand on the edge of the sinkhole's far side. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside ...