Construction has begun on the new Dimmitt ISD sports complex. In late October 2020, the DISD school board approved a $2.9 million contract with Hellas Construction Inc.

Newly elected President Joe Biden has proposed legal status and a pathway to citizenship for the thousands of undocumented farmworkers who are in the United States. The estimated 1.25 million undocumented farmworkers would immediately gain legal status under the immigration reform bill unveiled Biden on his first day in office.

The Texas Department of Public Safety is reminding all Texans carrying an expired license and identification card that they have until April to renew. The waiver on expired driver licenses (DLs) and identification cards (IDs) ends on April 14.

Two years after the 2018 farm bill legalized the cultivation of industrial hemp, the USDA completed work on a regulation to oversee production. While some are hopeful hemp could become a profitable crop grown in the United States, others ay there will be a low demand for hemp acreage.