West Texas

Officials haven’t specified what caused the break, but say the broken line is about 60 years old.

Two of the largest blazes cover more than 37,000 acres. The National Weather Service warns of “critical” fire danger throughout Texas heading into the weekend.

Texas A&M Forest Service has responded to nine fires across the state this week, saying they “have the potential to exhaust state and local resources.”

The Tall City’s reliance on oil and gas makes it particularly vulnerable to high inflation.

The year was a blast furnace, marked by drought, triple-digit heat and historic wildfires. It started with a dry winter that quickly turned into a hot and dry spring, setting the state up for a stretch of scorching months that lasted long into the fall.

Wilderness areas are the most stringently protected types of public lands in the U.S. A coalition of Big Bend boosters is pushing for Congress to protect most of the park’s natural areas through a formal wilderness designation.

The drought could drive up the price of beef. One agronomist explains why, and what farmers might do to adapt.

The bronze sculpture, which was removed from the Dallas park in September 2017, is now at the Lajitas Golf Resort in Terlingua, Texas,

For Texas, the reopening will mean a return of commerce and tourism for hundreds of thousands of daily border travelers across the 28 international bridges that connect the state to its Number 1 trading partner: Mexico.

In the Permian Basin, thousands of oil and gas wells fill the landscape, and today some of that aging equipment is bursting and leading to uncontrolled leaks.

At age 90, the Star Trek actor is poised to become the oldest person ever to visit space. "It's never too late to experience new things," Shatner said on Monday.

SpaceX is preparing to launch the largest rocket in the history of spaceflight. If permitted by federal regulators, it will lift off from a beach-side facility at the southern tip of Texas. But residents and researchers have criticized the permitting process, saying the company has flouted rules — at the expense of the environment and the community.