With some of the first bills pass the Texas House of Representatives in the 89th legislative session, lawmakers focused on ...

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

In Texas, fire crews can find themselves battling scores of blazes throughout the year -- from winter, when dormant vegetation provides fire fuel, to summer, when drought can turn grass and trees ...

According to Fire Marshal Chad Hoque, the fire appears to have started in the garage of the home near a golf cart that was ...

Meanwhile, recent major fires that prompted evacuations in the Panhandle and Central Texas were fully contained as of ...

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

The lower chamber passed bills on Tuesday aimed at improving the state's wildfire response and prohibiting taxes on financial ...

Experts reported in early March that total winter precipitation in the U.S. was just shy of 6 inches — or nearly an inch ...

While Los Angeles rebuilds after the January wildfires, an increasing number of its wealthy residents are moving to Texas.