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

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.

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

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

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

In a remote corner of Northeast Texas, right where the Panhandle meets the rolling plains, is a more-than 14,000-acre ranch for raising livestock and hunting that has remained in the same family since ...

In the year following the largest wildfire to every burn in Texas history, Texans across the state have learned many lessons.

The Smokehouse Creek fire tore through the Texas Panhandle early last year, burning over a million acres in just weeks. In ...

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 largest of the blazes, the Smokehouse Creek Fire, was caused by a decaying pole owned by Xcel Energy, a major utility provider for much of the Panhandle, that an inspector said should be ...