Citing recent samples showing a low number of legal-sized oysters, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is shutting down ...

The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department is restocking the Texas waterways with thousands of Rainbow Trout. The plan is to stock ...

Beginning in July and continuing through December, a black bear made appearances across East Texas, primarily in Cherokee and ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas Parks and Wildlife is honoring three employees who died after their helicopter crashed over the weekend in a West Texas wildlife preserve. It killed Dewey Stockbridge, a ...

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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) has formalized an internal artificial intelligence policy aimed at managing the use of emerging technologies across its workforce. TPWD's policy is built ...

Whatever you do East Texas, don’t go on a bear hunt. Don’t go looking in caves, don’t go walking in tall grass. Leave your binoculars behind. The bears are here, but they’re best left alone, according ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - The Texas Parks and Wildlife are remembering Texas Game Warden Teyran “Ty” Patterson who passed away in 2007 after saving his partner when their boat capsized in a river. On May ...

Located about 80 miles southwest of Fort Worth, Palo Pinto Mountains will become the first new state park to open in North Texas in nearly 25 years. On New Year’s Day, park rangers led group hikes for ...

This story is part of the KXAN Data Hub, where numbers help tell the whole story. AUSTIN (KXAN) — Looking for an outdoor adventure this fall? Depending on the weather, one of Texas’ many state parks ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is warning residents in the Trans-Pecos region of reports of a mountain lion within city limits. Officials shared in a Facebook post on Thursday, April 11, that ...

Crude oil pools at the site of a damaged pipeline north of Lake Arlington on May 8, 2025. The leak of 2,600 barrels occurred two days prior and contaminated wastewater in the Fort Worth sewer system.