Texas is now home not only to cowboys but also to a unique fossil specimen from "Swaindelphys." This possum-like specimen was ...

Big Bend National Park in Texas could soon expand by thousands of acres. Pictured is the mouth of Santa Elena Canyon in the park.(Dan Leeth / Special Contributor) Big Bend National Park in Texas ...

Travel & Outdoors Big Bend When was the last time you got out to the most stunning national park in Texas? Whether you’ve been there twenty times or not at all, here are more than a dozen ...

Texas bought a massive Big Bend-area ranch listed for $245M. Here’s what it paid. Texas' largest landowner sold the unfathomably large Brewster Ranch at a discount.

Staffers at Big Bend National Park discovered a new plant species “previously unknown to science,” the National Park Service confirmed Monday.

Authorities are searching for 25-year-old Christy Perry, who has not returned home from a hiking trip in Big Bend National Park in Texas.(Michael Hamtil / Staff Photographer) Authorities are ...

Some residents in a Fort Bend County village say they fear a proposed toll road could change their rural community, forcing families to move.

They say everything is bigger in Texas, and Big Bend National Park sure lives up to it. Spanning 801,163 acres, it's the 15th largest national park in America and known as "Texas' gift to the ...

Texas has big goals for college completion. In places like the Coastal Bend, how to get there is still murky.

If you're looking to work remotely, Big Bend National Park has a volunteer program for you, with a three-month stay in the park from Feb. 1 to April 30.

The Big Bend Sentinel is the area's weekly newspaper that has kept watch over this part of West Texas for 99 years.

Big Bend National Park in Texas could soon expand by thousands of acres. Three lawmakers — U.S. Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Ben Ray Luján D-New Mexico, and U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San ...