At least three times a week, Darin Mitchell gets the call. Oil drums have been stolen. Copper wires were yanked.

Not so long ago, the East Texas oilfield was the largest and most plentiful oil patch in the continental U.S. It sprang to ...

Governor Abbott has activated state emergency response resources, including the Texas National Guard, Texas Parks and ...

Gov. Greg Abbott has activated state resources ahead of a severe weather threat in West Texas and the Panhandle. Here's what you need to know.

The legislative package was inspired by the state’s largest wildfire in history. The Smokehouse Creek fire scorched more than ...

“Even the simplest well can take time,” said Nicholas Harrel, a state managed plugger with the Texas Railroad Commission. From the air, the wells look like pinpricks across the Texas landscap ...

In a statement posted on its website recently, the Railroad Commission ... to search the records for them”. Documents that have been digitized range from oil and gas production and well ...

"We are proud to remain a leader in well plugging efforts nationwide and look forward to working with the new Secretary of the Interior to expeditiously plug wells in Texas," RRC Executive ...

A strong drink and a bad attitude never mix well. But, occasionally ... Austin Hotel that seems to have proved decisive. In Texas, oil production limits were overseen by a state agency called the ...

In arid West Texas, water seeps and bubbles ... Landowners "cannot use any (federal) funds to plug the well unless it's on that (Railroad Commission) list. They also can't apply for federal ...