Updated: 3:40 AM Coming off the drought of 2011, and with the uncertainty that there could be drought conditions once again this summer, water conservation is highly important -- and important now.

Updated: 10:48 PM After the intense drought of 2011 finally came to a close at the beginning of 2012 for the Brazos Valley, it continues for most of Texas West of I-35. Water supplies are still severely depleted for much of Central Texas and the Hill Country.

Updated: 11:33 AM A lawsuit filed against the Recording Academy over its decision to trim the Grammy Award categories from 109 to 78 has been dismissed by a judge in New York.

Updated: 11:31 AM On the west steps of the U.S. Capitol, the entire Bible is being read aloud, non-stop, from Genesis to Revelation.

Updated: 11:31 AM Director Peter Sellars has won a special award along with four of the world's finest singers.

Updated: 11:30 AM With her first wedding anniversary approaching, the former Kate Middleton's transformation into a highly regarded member of the royal family is nearly complete.

Updated: 8:15 AM There’s been a recent controversy over a product called lean finely textured beef, a product that’s been consumed for the last twenty years, but some inaccurate reporting coupled with the fact that it didn’t look the way people thought it would when it first came out in public created quite a stir.

Posted: 1:50 PM See interviews and clips from BVTM's live broadcast from the Memorial Student Center Friday morning.

Updated: 11:30 AM Country music legend Willie Nelson is expected to help unveil an 8-foot statue of himself in Austin.

Updated: 7:44 AM The world faces many challenges ahead, but none are any bigger than those facing agricultural producers. They’re the people the world is relying on to keep us all fed.

Updated: 11:30 AM An Oregon man who stripped naked at Portland International Airport as a protest against airport security screeners says he was being "nude but not lewd," and characterized his act of defiance as protected political speech.

Updated: 5:43 AM Reports in Australia say Greg Ham, a musician with the iconic Australian band Men at Work, has been found dead in his Melbourne home.

Updated: 7:23 AM MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (AP) - Police in Georgia handcuffed a kindergartner after the girl threw a tantrum, and the police chief is making no apologies.

Posted: 7:19 AM CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - After three decades of space service, NASA's oldest and most traveled shuttle, Discovery, began its new life as a museum relic Tuesday with one final takeoff.

Posted: 7:53 AM Britain's biggest book fair is facing criticism of its decision to extend a special invitation to China, a country that regularly censors and imprisons authors.

Posted: 7:45 AM Their secret is out -- after more than 83 years. Eunice and Lloyd Ford eloped one night in April of 1929. Now, 102- and 100-years-old, the Fords recently celebrated their 83rd anniversary.

Posted: 7:38 AM Walt Disney Co. says it will co-produce its next "Iron Man" movie with a Chinese partner in Hollywood's latest effort to forge closer ties with China's fast-growing film industry.

Posted: 7:33 AM DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., the maker of "Shrek," ''Madagascar" and "Kung Fu Panda," is teaming up with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to help people convert their old DVDs into an online movie library.

Updated: 7:42 AM Throughout history in production agriculture, farmers and ranchers have been pressed to do more with less, to make larger crop yields with less land in production, and to produce more pounds of meat protein with less rangeland, and they continue to do so.

Updated: 11:28 AM Congratulations to News 3's 1st First Time Forecaster Paityn Seymour! She was selected as the first from many submissions to come in and meet the KBTX PinPoint Forecast Team and join Shel Winkley, live, on BVTM.

Updated: 12:36 PM A broadcaster, a community organizer and an avid fundraiser for local causes, Bryan Broadcasting's Ben Downs is a hard man to stop. On top of all of that is a prolific career in radio that's still going strong after 40 years.

Updated: 10:45 AM District 17 Rep. Bill Flores is talking about the long-running GOP race for the Presidential nomination. He called into Brazos Valley This Morning Wednesday and said that, personally, he's ready to have one candidate for the party.

Updated: 7:47 AM Last month the Texas Supreme Court affirmed the fact that landowners in Texas have an ownership interest in the water that’s under their property.

Updated: 6:39 PM A new Texas Transportation Institute study at Texas A&M says wider stripes on the sides of rural highways could reduce the number of accidents.

Updated: 7:45 AM In Texas we use an average of 17 billion gallons of water a day and with future growth it is expected for that consumption to increase while our supply of water is expected to decrease.