With the turn of the calendar to a new year comes the swearing in of newly elected or re-elected Wharton County of-ficials ...

Bill Smart and Beautify El Campo Extension Service are picking up the fight to make El Campo shine. Those interested in doing ...

Tradition says now’s the time to look for a little baby scooting along draped in a banner declaring it to be 2025, and the ...

The Wharton County Youth Fair opens on March 28 and runs until April 5, but preparations are underway and deadlines are fast ...

Wharton County residents had reason to hope for peace and prosperity as the calendar turned to 2025, the weather was largely ...

As the clock winds down on foot-ball season, so too does the time for you to earn your share of glory in our weekly football contest.

As you’ve read on our front page, the Wharton County Leader-Journal has been sold to another newspaper group. Hartman Newspapers sold the Leader-Journal, East Bernard Express and two other community ...

The El Campo Elks Lodge will host their annual Hoop Shoot for area youth coming in 2025.

A $1 million federal grant will pay 90% of El Campo’s cost to ensure utilities will con-tinue to operate even during a blackout.

In a purchase effective Jan. 1, Moser Com-munity Media, LLC has acquired the Fort Bend Herald, Alvin Sun, Alvin Advertiser, and Whar-ton County Journal-Leader.

Allen was a champion calf roper in college and the first left-handed roper to ever make it to National Finals in 1960. He didn’t brag about it, in fact he down-played his roping prow-ess, but El Campo ...

Jimmy Carter, America’s longest-lived President, who died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, had a complicated legacy that had an impact on rural Texas counties such as Whar-ton.