ORANGE, Texas -- Fishing pro Todd Faircloth of Jasper won the Bassmaster Elite Series Sabine River Challenge on Sunday, besting Dean Rojas of Lake Havasu City, Ariz., by 6 pounds, 10 ounces on the final day of competition.
Faircloth's win -- his fourth Elite Series title and second in Texas...
Alligator attacks are rare in Texas, but in the wake of another attack in Florida in which a 2-year-old boy was dragged into a lagoon at a Disney hotel near Orlando, it's a good time to urge caution and understanding about the reptiles, especially during breeding season.
GATOR HISTORY, NUMBERS: To gauge the alligator...
A Louisiana man was ordered to pay more than $14,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to negligent transportation of wildlife in connection with importing live white-tailed deer into the Trans-Pecos region.
Stephen Anderson Sipes Jr., 57, pleaded guilty June 10. Sipes had an ownership interest in a high-fence ranch in...
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is offering the chance to win a lifetime super combo hunting and fishing license — an $1,800 value — for only $5.
Entries for the lifetime license drawing can be purchased anywhere licenses are sold, as well as on the TPWD website.
Two drawings will...
The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday released its 2012 Recreational Boating Statistics, revealing that boating fatalities last year totaled 651, the lowest number on record.
From 2011 to 2012, deaths in boating-related accidents decreased from 758 to 651, a 14.1 percent decrease; injuries decreased from 3,081 to 3,000, a 2.6...
From Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law enforcement reports
Too Many to Count
Two Val Verde County game wardens were checking hunting camps when they discovered a hunting party had taken too many deer. To keep up with the growing list of violations, the game wardens resorted to drawing up a...
New rules to combat the spread of invasive zebra mussels take effect Dec. 10, requiring that all boats operating on public water in 17 northeast counties be drained after use.
Under the regulations, persons leaving or approaching public water in the affected counties are required to drain all water from their...
Lake Tawakoni has long been a haven for freshwater anglers and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is asking that anglers participate in a survey to determine opinions, characteristics and experiences of catfish anglers, with an emphasis on the blue catfish fishery.
A printed copy of the survey also is...
A game warden was shot Sunday evening in northeast Texas while bow hunting on a wildlife management area.
Chris Fried, 31, of Cooper, the off-duty warden, was hunting on the Cooper Wildlife Management Area in Delta County when he was struck by a bullet in the upper right arm, according...
Three Texas men have been cited for violating federal reef fish regulations June 19 in the Gulf of Mexico.
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries agents cited Oscar Naranjo, 49, of Galveston; Eustacio Rangel, 51, of Port Isabel; and Vincent Longoria, 47, of Palacios after finding them in possession of...