Articles by Bill Oliver

50 employees at the Alcoa plant in Rockdale have a new four-year contract. The United Steelworkers Union approved the package Thursday. Details of the settlement can be found by clicking HERE.

Thursday brought much needed and much welcomed rain in the Brazos Valley. Easterwood Airport in College Station measured one inch through 5 p.m. Thursday. The photograph was taken from the WTAW studio, looking over the [Read More…]

WTAW and the Bryan Broadcasting family of stations thank you for letting us serve the Brazos Valley with a variety of public service efforts. For the third consecutive year, the Texas Association of Broadcasters has [Read More…]

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) _ A Texas A&M review will target hiring practices following an administrator’s resignation after he allegedly padded his resume. President R. Bowen Loftin, in an campus-wide e-mail, said A&M requires that [Read More…]

A recent member of the Bryan City Council has died. Joe Marin’s death followed a severe heart attack earlier in the week. Marin served six years representing the council’s first district, which ended in 2007 [Read More…]

LEWISVILLE, Texas (AP) _ An equipment accident at an under-construction park-and-ride transit site in the Dallas area left two workers dead and two injured. Denton County Transportation Authority president James Cline says construction will be [Read More…]

NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas (AP) _ The Comal River and the Guadalupe River have reopened for recreation about two weeks after strong storms led to flooding that swamped some areas. New Braunfels Mayor Bruce Boyer on [Read More…]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Big businesses are about to compete for a piece of the action in the Texas lottery. International lottery companies are presenting proposals to the state by Tuesday showing how they would [Read More…]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Gov. Rick Perry has declared Sunday a day of prayer in Texas over lives lost and the environmental disaster of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Perry, who Wednesday returned to [Read More…]

Proposed changes to Northgate are expected to go before the College Station City Council Thursday night. In November of last year, city staff along with the Texas Department of Transportation, presented a plan to council [Read More…]