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Lake Waco has filled for the first time in more than two years after weekend floods upstream on the North Bosque River that caused road closures in Clifton and Meridian.

A yearslong legal battle over the ownership of a strip of Waco farmland along the Brazos River has ended in favor of the family which has farmed it for generations.

"The thing to keep in mind is that we have a worker shortage now, it started during COVID, and it will persist for the rest of our lifetimes," Dubay said.

Waco leaders found themselves on the barricades this year when a long-buried conflict between rural dairies and urban drinking water rose from its unquiet grave.

A track coach and math teacher at Chilton High School was killed Monday in a wreck on Highway 77 in Robinson, school officials said.

The Waco Housing Authority has scraped together funding to begin work as early as summer on the first phase of redeveloping its largest public housing complex.

Lacy Lakeview may try again for a bond election to fund street repairs, more than 20 years after voters rejected the last effort.

Waco is starting 2024 with flowing streams, green winter grass and Lake Waco full for the first January in three years. But drought is lingering elsewhere in the region.

Areas of Reynolds Creek Park on the northwest side of Lake Waco look charred and lifeless this week, but not to worry.

Life, and the study of life, are returning to the Lake Waco Wetlands after a two-year drought that left it a wetland in name only.