February 2015

A six-year-old child has died after piranhas stripped the flesh from her legs when she fell into the water from her grandmother’s canoe. The accident happened during a family holiday when the girl toppled into the water in Rio Maicuru

Learn the Inner Workings of Cleburne and Dinosaur Valley State Parks AUSTIN – If you’ve ever wanted to be a park ranger or simply wondered about the inner workings of a Texas state park, then consider enrolling in the Citizen’s Park

EDMONTON — He received 30 stitches, gashes to his face and neck and part of his ear was amputated, but Stephen Campbell still considers himself lucky. On Friday afternoon, the 31-year-old pipeline worker was attacked by a cougar about 90 kilometres south

ATHENS—Learn to tie a fly, cast a fly and catch a fish all in one day during the annual Fly Fish Texas event at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center March 14. Throughout the day, experienced fly-tiers will be demonstrating and

It was an ordinary hunting day in Texas earlier this month until two friends spotted a wild hog weighing nearly 800 pounds. Blaine Garcia and Wyatt Walton were on a ranch in De Leon, owned by Comanche County Commissioner Jimmy

For decades now we’ve been channeling the Rio Grande through a pretty narrow path in order to prevent flooding. The river is naturally supposed to swell and recede – a messy, but necessary process. Flooding provides water and nutrients to

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A large great white shark is heading south toward Florida, according to Ocearch. The shark named Mary Lee measures at 16 feet and weighs 3,500 pounds. Tracking devices allows scientists or anyone else to follow shark’s movements in the water. Professor Dr.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says a Galliano man caught way too many black drum Saturday, and none of the fish were large enough to legally harvest. Agents cited Rufino Gonzalez-Ibarra, 34, for possessing 26 black drum and

Officials trying to safeguard Lake Waco against the zebra mussel menace have scored a tentative victory. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials received word late last week that there were no traces of zebra mussel larvae or DNA in samples

Last week the ACLU released information about the Department of Justice tracking the license plates of millions of cars belonging to American citizens. As if that wasn’t alarming enough, documents obtained by the organization through a Freedom of Information Act request show

AUSTIN – Two gun bills that would legalize the open carry of handguns in Texas are on a fast-track in the state Senate. “I have asked the chair of the committee to schedule these two bills, and the Campus Carry