Mexia’s population surged, businesses sprang up almost overnight and the streets filled with money — and trouble.

(Bloomberg) -- The world has spent a decade gorging on fuel from America’s shale basins, and oil prices are topping $100 a barrel. So it might seem an odd time to be contemplating the energy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The abandoned 1912 high school building in Toya, Texas, now sits empty in the West Texas ghost town. Toya, once a booming railroad ...

A Chesapeake Energy drilling site near Big Wells in South Texas uses fracking. The boom in shale gas drilling has created half a million jobs. Hawk Dunlap fought fires and blowouts in oil fields ...