Ryan Ross skipped school to burn down the countryside. On that first afternoon, the 19-year-old Mount Vernon (Texas) senior ...

Lawmakers like State Rep. Ken King, R-Canadian, have put forward bills that have passed out of the Texas House and are up for ...

Texas lawmakers are proposing new bills to prevent future wildfires like the Smokehouse Creek Fire. One bill, HB 143, aims to regulate electrical power lines serving oil and gas operations ...

East Texas has been lucky. While Central Texas and the Panhandle have been hit with some devastating wildfires in the past ...

The Texas Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs heard testimony today on a bill that would bolster ...

But nothing prepared her for what she saw after the Smokehouse Creek Fire last year. "Everyone I know lost something," Ezzell Brown told The Texas Newsroom, as she stood surrounded by the ...

The legislation was written after the state’s largest wildfire scorched more than 1 million acres in the Panhandle last year.

The Smokehouse Creek fire tore through the Texas Panhandle early last year, burning over a million acres in just weeks. In the small town of... 'Beauty from the ashes.' Texas Panhandle recovering ...