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 ...

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

On a 922-acre remnant of Texas' dwindling native prairieland about 100 miles northeast of Dallas, a zany crew of fire ...

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

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

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) - Wichita Falls Fire Department responded to a house fire on March 30 at Canyon Creek Street.

A year earlier and almost 500 miles to the northwest, Texas’ Smokehouse Creek Fire ate up more than a million acres in the Panhandle, marking the largest wildfire in the state’s history.