Avery Niles

They are looking for a person who is interested in donating a kidney with Type B or O blood type to be tested to see if they are a match to Miracle.

The celebration had music, a proclamation written by the county judge, prayers and the tree adornment and lighting. Moore says it’s a way for the victims to be remembered and the family to find peace.

Hanukkah begins tomorrow and an East Texas congregation is celebrating with a concert.

An eclipse group funded by NASA out of Colorado is looking for East Texans to help gather data from the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse.

The judge ruled that experts who have already testified must submit a sworn statement regarding the scope of their investigation.

For the past three years Green Acres Baptist Church has hosted a Christmas tree lighting event for the public to kick off the Christmas season.

With more and more high school students taking interest in careers in the arts, schools are leaning into that to give them experience.

This is the Rangerettes’ third time to travel to Hawaii in the last 15 years to participate in events for the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks.

Kilgore ISD is collecting items for students in need this holiday season. It’s called Bulldog Blessings, and it works like an angel tree.

“I am a disabled athlete. I started running probably around five or six. I have run all over the nation at different national competitions, but this is my first international meet,” Will Butts, who goes to Grace Community School, said.

UT Health had been on "divert status" since Thanksgiving Day.

All of the money raised from the event goes to Kingdom Care 127 to buy toys for East Texas children in the foster care system.

A non-profit foundation called SamStrong was formed after Samantha died during a seizure. They host an annual soccer tournament every year on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. All of the proceeds go to a scholarship for two soccer players.

With a tiara on her head and a sash reading “aged to perfection,” Frances Johnston, born Nov. 21, 1916, turned 107 on Tuesday.

A two-vehicle wreck took place in Tyler on Tuesday evening, leaving a silver car and a black SUV damaged.

“We have an event that we’re calling Eclipse on the Bricks. We’re going to have vendors that will be here, we will have entertainment, we’ll have a kid-zone area, and we’ll also have special event-themed activities for the kids where they can learn a little bit more about the eclipse,” Lea Kottwitz said.

This series invites mountain bikers to experience five different trails across East Texas that are five miles or less.

From the opening kickoff, West Rusk showed they were the better team Friday night in the Raiders 50-35 win over New Diana.

Brian Opella, the assistant clinical instructor for the course, says this is a hyper-realistic wilderness scenario where students are tasked with treating fake patients after a tornado took out both major hospitals in Tyler.

Graylan Spring and Micah McAfoose were driving in Corrigan on January 20 when they hit by an 18-wheeler. Both students later died of their injuries. Angelina County Judge Bob Inselmann says it’s time to get the ball rolling on the case.

Experts say music classes for young children can help develop their brains, fine motor skills, and lay the foundation of forming relationships.

A Tyler man pleaded guilty to causing serious injury to his infant son Tuesday morning.

A man accused of killing a Panola County deputy appeared in court Monday after being granted a change of venue to Gregg County.

The Marvin Methodist congregation began meeting as a part of a community service that was held in the first log cabin courthouse in Tyler in 1848.

The Kilgore College Cosmetology Center in Longview is extending their offer to give free haircuts to veterans into next week in honor of Veterans Day.

Captain Dale Lee Davidson graduated from Robert E. Lee High School in 1973 and joined the Marine Corps shortly after. Today, his name was added to a memorial outside of the school to be remembered and honored forever. “He was many things; he was a brother, a husband, an uncle, a friend to so many people, but above all he was a soldier and served his country for 19 years before his death,” his widow, Leslie, said.

KLTV 7′s Avery Niles speaks about the new sensory playground equipment at rotary park in Longview.

As the April 8th eclipse grows closer, many cities that will be in 100% totality areas are preparing for the event and the crowds that may follow. KLTV 7′s Avery Niles speaks about Gilmer and their plans.

This proposition would change the future of Texas state parks.

The Texas A&M Forest Service recently awarded $15.7 million in grant money to rural volunteer fire departments across the state. The Texas A&M Forest Service Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program was created in 2002.

Recently the CDC announced there is a shortage in the fairly new preventative for RSV called Nirsevimab.

“Most folks had a good start to the year, coming out of spring and going into summer but going into July, water just shut off. You couple that with the extreme heat those plants out in those pastures, they just didn’t produce,” Sims said.

Starting Wednesday, residents in Kilgore might notice some changes in their water. The City of Kilgore will perform a temporary disinfectant conversion to the city water.

We just had a partial eclipse, but Visit Tyler and TJC are already preparing for the total solar eclipse that will happen on Apr. 8, and there will be lots to do and celebrate.

The original estimate for the project in 2019 was around $3 million dollars. Today, because of inflation it is around $3.6 million dollars.

Watch Gilmer’s Brendan Webb use great concentration as he hits the ground and gets an interception.

A different blood sucking insect the size of a flea could be the cause of a skin infection epidemic in Texas.

Bullard firefighters were able to save a home after a car went up in flames under an awning Thursday.

The cast of the Rocky Horror Picture Show are gearing up and getting ready for their Tyler shows starting Friday.

This year is the 30th year for the Oilmen’s Chili Cook-Off to take place on the streets of downtown Kilgore.

D’Wayne Shaw, the Executive Dean of Professional and Career Education at the college says this facility will have a training track, classroom, and warehouse to train and test for CDL license and forklift certification.

KLTV 7′s Avery Niles speaks to Dr. Glenell M. Lee-Pruitt about her new role, her goals and the challenges that lay ahead.

KLTV’s Avery Niles speaks to Andy Bergfeld of Bergfeld Reality about the history of the Greyhound Inn on it's opening week.

“it’s a program or a solution that takes voice, video and our communications and it links everything together if there is some sort of emergency or some sort of event that we have immediate communication, and our first responders have immediate capability to look in on our cameras and get real time firsthand information, “Black said.

"So, it would be a tremendous benefit to (all) involved,” said Dakota Finney, owner and director of Little Rascals Learning Center.

Roughly one out of eight women in the U.S. will develop invasive breast cancer in the course of their life.

The fire broke out around 8:30 p.m.

After two years and roughly $3 million worth of renovations, the SPCA of East Texas had a ribbon cutting today for their new building in Tyler.

The U.S. Bureau Of Labor Statistics says about 20,000 eye injuries occur in the work place every year, making it the most common workplace injury.Dr Neshia Rudd, an optometrist at Today’s Vision in Tyler, says she sees them quite often.

“it’s to replace some aging infrastructure and aging equipment that is at the end of its useful life at the wastewater treatment plant. It’s phase two, we did phase one about four years ago and now this phase two should round out the rest of the improvements at the wastewater treatment plant,” Evers said.