News feeds to consider (research)

This page is a curated list of RSS/Atom feeds that may be useful for adding a future “News” or “Government Updates” section.

Note: Some large publishers have limited/blocked RSS access, may require cookies/JS, or may change URLs frequently.

Local / Central Texas / Bell County area

KWTX (Waco / Central Texas)

  • Homepage: https://www.kwtx.com/
  • RSS feeds: (KWTX historically provides RSS but URLs may change; verify latest feed endpoints from their RSS page/search.)

Killeen Daily Herald

  • Homepage: https://kdhnews.com/
  • RSS: (Verify; many Lee Enterprises sites have inconsistent RSS availability)

Temple Daily Telegram

  • Homepage: https://www.tdtnews.com/
  • RSS: (Verify)

Austin American-Statesman

  • Homepage: https://www.statesman.com/
  • RSS: (Often restricted/limited)

Bell County / City Government (official sources)

Bell County, Texas (Official site)

  • Homepage: https://www.bellcountytx.com/
  • Check for “News”, “Press Releases”, or “Agenda” pages; many counties provide updates via CMS without RSS.

City of Killeen

  • Homepage: https://www.killeentexas.gov/

City of Temple

  • Homepage: https://www.templetx.gov/

City of Belton

  • Homepage: https://www.beltontexas.gov/

For official government sites, if RSS is not available, a future option is to add a lightweight scraper + cache in an external service (not in Jekyll) and display curated headlines.

Texas Government / Legislature

Texas Legislature Online

  • Homepage: https://capitol.texas.gov/
  • RSS/updates: (TLO provides bill updates but RSS availability varies; verify.)

Office of the Texas Governor

  • Homepage: https://gov.texas.gov/
  • Look for press release feeds.

Texas Attorney General (press releases)

  • Homepage: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/
  • Look for press release feeds.

National politics / government

The White House

  • Homepage: https://www.whitehouse.gov/
  • RSS: Whitehouse.gov has historically provided RSS feeds; verify current feed endpoints.

U.S. Supreme Court

  • Homepage: https://www.supremecourt.gov/
  • RSS: SCOTUS provides RSS for opinions and orders in many cases; verify from the site.

Congress.gov

  • Homepage: https://www.congress.gov/
  • RSS: Congress.gov provides various RSS feeds (bills, etc.); verify from their RSS documentation.

Notes on AP / Reuters

  • AP RSS endpoints may be blocked/require JS or subscription. Initial quick tests returned “page unavailable” responses, so AP RSS should not be relied on without confirming access.

Next step (if you want these in the UI)

If you want, I can implement a static “External News Sources” sidebar widget that simply links to these sources (no RSS fetching), or we can add a separate service (serverless/job) that pulls RSS and outputs a JSON file that Jekyll can render.

Sources & Verification

Verified: 2026-02-11