Ryan Ross skipped school to burn down the countryside. On that first afternoon, the 19-year-old Mount Vernon (Texas) senior ...

LFR documents released to the A-J highlight firefighters' experience and response to Texas Tech fires and explosions in March ...

Texas Tech's campus in Lubbock will be closed Thursday, Friday and next week for spring break after a manhole explosion ...

As the sun set on the Texas Tech campus in Lubbock, Texas, days before the university was set to go on spring break, pillars ...

Austin City Council on Thursday approved several amendments to city code that would change building requirements in the city. Those changes included some ways to make Austin more fire-resistant ...

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

Senate Bill 34 would create a statewide database of firefighting equipment, increase funding for volunteer fire departments ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Monday that the special election to fill the seat vacated following the death of Rep. Sylvester Turner will be held on Nov. 4.

The Texas A&M Forest Service is offering grants to Central Texans for clearing their land of flammable vegetation to reduce ...

An apartment building in western Fort Worth partially collapsed due to the fire, injuring a firefighter, FWFD said.

As high winds blow through the South this weekend, thousands of acres of wildfires are raging in Texas. An outbreak of wildfires began in Texas on Friday as winds exceeded 30 miles per hour and ...

Texas lawmakers are proposing new bills to prevent future wildfires like the Smokehouse Creek Fire. One bill, HB 143, aims to regulate electrical power lines serving oil and gas operations ...