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

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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 ...

Located about 80 miles southwest of Fort Worth, Palo Pinto Mountains will become the first new state park to open in North ...

While Falcon State Park is popular among anglers and overnight campers, its 2026 First Day Hike will be dedicated to hikers ...

Officials will stock rainbow trout in roughly100 places statewide this season — many of which are in the San Antonio area and ...

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 ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will offer 140 public hunts during the 2025-26 hunting season, according to a news release. Hunts will be offered in 52 state parks and state natural areas.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Biologists with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) have confirmed multiple sightings of a black bear in several East Texas counties. The bear was spotted in Cherokee, Anderson, Panola, and ...