The Branch Davidians may be best known for its 51-day standoff that ended in the deaths of four federal agents, and a blaze that engulfed its church and killed 80 members. In the ashes of that debacle, the Branch Davidians have built a new church, adopted a new leader and found a new confrontation: a major Texas highway that threatens their land.

The state of Texas is considering building a north-south superhighway through the Waco area. One county map, drawn up merely for guesstimating costs, the county insists, shows the highway going straight through the old Branch Davidian camp.

In the ashes of the Branch Davidian site where nearly 80 people died in a 1993 blaze after an armed standoff with federal agents, a new religious community is slowly taking shape.

A new religious community is rising from the ashes of the Branch Davidian compound here, 14 years after nearly 80 people died in a fire that ended an armed standoff with the federal authorities.

The current residents would like to construct an Old Testament-style tabernacle, an amphitheater, a spiritual healing center, a museum showing the entire history of the land and a memorial wall containing a stone for each of the 86 people killed in 51-day standoff that ended in fire April 19, 1993.

Fourteen years after a February shootout and April inferno killed almost 100 people, tourists still trek to Mount Carmel, drawn by the bloody tragedy of cult leader David Koresh and his Branch Davidian followers.

The group that assumed control almost a year ago of the new Mount Carmel, former home of the David Koresh faction of the Branch Davidian sect, announced this week plans to resume the communal lifestyle of its founders in the compound made infamous 14 years ago.