The Greenville City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved rezoning of 18.6 acres off Weslev Street from Single Family-3 to ...

Lester Smith had been making multimillion-dollar donations to Houston health institutions for the better part of a decade when he learned about the local community's tragic predicament. The medical ...

Lester Smith was a West Texas wildcatter and philanthropist, a championship ballroom dancer and practical joker, a two-time cancer survivor and double-lung transplant recipient who died Thursday at ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) -Autry Stephens, the billionaire founder and chairman of Endeavor Energy Resources, has died aged 86, the company disclosed on Friday, after a prolonged battle with cancer. Stephens ...

Glenn McCarthy rose from a Beaumont waterboy to a multimillion-dollar Texas wildcatter whose Shamrock Hotel opening in ...

It wasn’t too long ago that area geologist, oilman and sculptor Will Tucker noticed that the Wichita Trucks from the Railroad Museum – behind his Magnolia Building (1911) at 8th and Ohio – were gone. ...

BP has cut a $200 million deal with San Antonio wildcatter Rodney Lewis to drill on 80,000 acres that Lewis has acquired in the Eagle Ford play in south Texas. What's more interesting is who BP now ...

In the oil business, the term “wildcatter” describes entities that set out on their own to drill for oil where mainline companies have little interest. They do their own research, their own analyses ...

The race to tap Venezuela’s vast oil reserves is no longer a slow diplomatic dance between governments and supermajors. It is increasingly shaped by a handful of aggressive Texas wildcatters who are ...