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College-bound students and their parents typically want to make every dollar and every minute of the college experience count — including money spent on tuition and time spent on the college financial aid application process.

The Governor's Small Business Forum will be from 7:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Vernon College Skills Training Center.

The state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased in April to 6.9 percent, down from 7.0 percent in March -- and the Wichita Falls unemployment rate (not seasonally adjusted) edged down to 5.9 percent from 6.3 percent in March.

The Better Business Bureau has received hundreds of calls from consumers nationwide — including Wichita Falls — inquiring about the Clear-Cast HDTV Antenna, which is manufactured by Brilliant Built Technologies, a subsidiary of Universal Media Syndicate, Inc., located in Canton, ...

John Tintera, former executive director of the Railroad Commission of Texas, has joined the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers regulatory compliance team in Austin as an environmental and technical consultant, Townes G. Pressler, Alliance board chairman said.

The Small Business Development Center at Midwestern State University will hold its 25th anniversary celebration Thursday in Room 189 of the Dillard College of Business Administration.

Existing home sales here improved in April over the previous month, and sales and sales volume for the year are outpacing 2011, the monthly report from the Wichita Falls Association of Realtors showed.

Wichita Falls will be included in a statewide series of business-building events.

It's Mother's Day. I hope you didn't forget. If you did, even with all the advertising surrounding it, you may want to schedule an appointment with a mental health professional.

Someone once said that trying to figure out where crude oil and gasoline prices were headed is like trying to put a jig-saw puzzle together in a room with the lights turned off. In other words, you can feel the ...

What's surprising in early May is not that West Texas is so dry, but that the eastern half of the state is in relatively good condition, said Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon, state climatologist and regents professor at Texas A&M University.

With last year's record-breaking summer heat and calls for energy conservation fresh on Texans' minds, reducing household electricity use while staying cool and minding the family budget will be key concern for residents this summer.

Now that the tax filing season has come and gone, you may wonder how long to keep records and which ones to keep. Saving necessary records after you file your taxes is a good idea, as they will help you ...

U.S. Cellular has announced that its Calling All Communities campaign will return for the fourth year this September.

As the lead Texas regulator of the oil and gas industry, Railroad Commission Chairman Barry Smitherman praised the efforts of industry and fellow regulators to keep the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard off the Endangered Species List.