Texas’s capital city is a place rooted in counterculture. People here still wax nostalgic for the 1970s, when just a few blocks from the pink domed capital building, Willie Nelson was taking the stage ...

More than 4,000 volunteers are building 25 Habitat for Humanity homes over five days for the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project.

Janet Debelak Tyburec, of Bat Survey Solutions, measures the ears of an evening bat on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025 at Swift River Pecans in Lockhart, Texas. These bats eat lots of different insects in ...

Spooky season means seeing more bats than usual out in the streets. There'll be paper and plastic bats hanging from front porches and taped to railings as part of Halloween decorations, and surely the ...

Oklahoma Department of Transportation natural resources biologists found creative ways to minimize the impact of a Panhandle bridge construction project on the state’s largest known maternity colony ...

DALLAS — A woman was arrested after she was allegedly seen hitting a dog with a bat in Dallas, police say. Officers responded to an animal cruelty call in the 13300 block of Cloverbrook Lane in ...

Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Thursday ordered a surge of state troopers and National Guard troops into Austin, a Democratic stronghold in the state, ahead of a planned protest that he has ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Workers prepare an oil containment boom at Refugio ...

Austin Jury Awards $112.9 million to victims of a drunk driver stemming from a 2023 car crash. The case involved the Texas Dram Shop Act. An Austin jury awarded $112.9 million to victims of a 2023 ...

Thanks to social media, the rescue efforts of different individuals and organizations are easy and quick to access. Every once in a while, a heartwarming story comes along that makes you melt. One of ...

On Sept. 29, a Marshall Animal Control Officer collected a bat that was lying on the ground in the 200 block of North Washington Avenue. The bat was later humanely euthanized and sent to the ...

Bat found in Georgetown tests positive for rabies Deceased bat was found in a neighborhood off SH 29, Ronald Reagan Blvd on Sept. 26 Officials are reminding the public not to touch or handle bats ...