This past year brought many important moments for Wharton County athletes, including a few El Campo Ladybirds earning gold ...

El Campo faced a hurricane, reeled from a shocking crime and celebrated an historic day in the city during 2024, all the ...

With the first blast of arctic air already chilling Wharton County, residents should continue to take precautions throughout ...

Nine suspected killers have cases pending or in progress in Wharton County courts as 2025 gets under way with the families of ...

El Campo main streets are being targeted with a beauti-fication effort aimed at busi-nesses. Stores along those main business corridors can get up to $500 or 50% of the project cost to do things like ...

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. Week 16’s slate of games were heavy on the college side, which pro ...

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. The city qualified for the grant awarded by the Texas Division of ...

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 ...

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 Leader-Journal was able to find one for our readers. Avery Leigh Svatek, the ...

The El Campo Elks Lodge will host their annual Hoop Shoot for area youth coming in 2025. Young hoopers from 8 to 13 years old are encouraged to attend the free event starting at 8:30 a.m. Saturday Jan ...

Korean War veteran, professional photographer and El Campo native, Grady Allen died Saturday at age 93. Allen was born July 31, 1931 and grew up just eight miles southeast of town off the dirt road ...

Maybe the lesson this Christmas season is that even if turnabout is fair play, at some point, enough is enough. Start with the specious lawsuits brought against President-elect Don-ald Trump, to the ...