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Outdoor enthusiast Charles Gandy is out to do the impossible by creating a cross-Texas route to rival the Appalachian and ...

Texas is bracing for a relentless and potentially ... Cities like Encinal and Cotulla are forecast to see extreme highs reaching 113 degrees. Maps from the weather service also show the heat ...

Texas cities that could see temperatures climb within a few degrees of highest May temperatures ever recorded include San Antonio, Dallas, Waco, Austin and others along the Interstate 35 corridor in ...

We’re scouting an attempt-it-only-during-drought-conditions alternative route of the 1,550-mile Cross Texas Trail, or XTX, ...

How much rain has Austin received this year? KXAN is keeping track of wildfires. Follow along with the map and database ...

Jesse Hunt, a former top staffer at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, noted that a free-spending Texas Senate primary could have unwelcome spillover effects on the national Senate map.

An early-season heat dome is building over the Gulf of Mexico and will bring a week of unusual heat and humidity to southern states, from Texas to Florida, and southward into Mexico and the Caribbean.

The first major heat wave of the year is sweeping across a large swath of North America, delivering extreme conditions from Mexico to Canada with the United States — and Texas in particular ...

The San Juan Hotel in Texas, a site with a complicated history, is among the most endangered. Other endangered sites include Cedar Key, Florida, and the Pamunkey Indian Reservation in Virginia.

There is a high chance for temperatures to be above average for much of the South for the foreseeable future, from Texas northeast through Virginia, according to the six- to 10-day temperature ...