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 test against https://apnews.com/hub/politics/rss returned an HTML “page unavailable” response, so I would not rely on AP RSS 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.