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Fourteen coastal counties will receive $84.6 million for improvement projects aimed at protecting communities and wildlife ...

The unexpected guest has lingered in the Rio Grande Valley for months.

Texas Parks and Wildlife warns avian influenza is spreading in wild birds. Here’s what officials say about risks to pets, people and backyard flocks.

On Jan. 29 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) declared a state of disaster as a pre-emptive move to minimize risk of the New World screwworm (NWS) establishing a foothold in the U.S. and Lone Star State.

The controversial space company would receive hundreds of acres from the federal government out of the Lower Rio Grande ...

Jaguars? In Texas? Once native to the state, jaguars haven’t been spotted in Texas in almost 80 years. But the species is ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is partnering with several agencies to accept applications for its Panhandle ...

The Trump administration has stopped the expansion of the state’s oldest animal refuge. One of the goal’s of the expansion was to protect the sandhill crane. Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service / ...

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 ...

The ranch real estate experts at James Bigley Ranches explain Texas wildlife exemption regulations and what every landowner needs to know to stay compliant.