Wharton County Leader-Journal

07/16/2025

07/14/2025

Help clean up El Campo. Effort starts tomorrow at 1001 W. Jackson behind Coca-Cola.

07/11/2025

AEP reports most power restored.
Anybody still out?

07/11/2025

UPDATE- AEP substation loses power causing outages across El Campo area. More than 3,000 reported out. “Technicians are working on the problem now,” El Campo Emergency Management Director Jimmy George Jr. said. What are conditions where you are at?

07/10/2025

The votes have been flooding in! This year its a close race for 1st!
**TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO VOTE!!!**
Call or come in today deadline is 5 p.m.
979-543-3363 • 203 E. Jackson St. El Campo

07/08/2025

VOTES HAVE BEEN COMING IN TODAY!
Have you voted for your ALL AMERICAN BABY??
* Votes can be brought in or called in over the phone!
Deadline for voting is Thursday!*

06/30/2025

Murder Suspect Sought

El Campo police are on the trail of a Rosenberg man believed to have shot and killed an El Campo man on Palacios Street Sunday.

Brandon Dwayne Stephens is considered armed and dangerous. Anyone with any information on his whereabouts is urged to contact El Campo Police at 979-543-5311 or the West Wharton County Crime Stoppers at 979-543-8477.

Stephens is the prime suspect in the pre-dawn Sunday morning slaying of Nikko Ray Deases in the parking lot of a Palacios Street store.

06/28/2025

06/25/2025

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Thank you for your patience!

06/23/2025

UPDATE 2:41 p.m. Monday.

www.wcleaderjournal.com is now working.

To access your eEdition or other sections of the website, please visit www.wcleaderjournal.com directly.

However courtesy forward from the website of the former El Campo Leader-News remains down. Going to www.leader-news.com WILL NOT WORK.

The website went down without warning this weekend, severing connection to the eEditions. The paper and its website provider are working to solve the problem as quickly as possible.

We apologize for the inconveniences that this has caused our readers.

06/21/2025

The first annual Wharton Juneteenth Soul Food & RB Community Feast is getting underway at Guadalupe Park in Wharton!

06/19/2025