As Texas’ population becomes increasingly urban, a smaller share of residents hunt. But in the exurbs, they may be visited by ...

During a traffic stop outside Houston earlier this month, Texas game wardens caught two deer breeders trying to move captive whitetails illegally across the state. The men pleaded guilty, and they ...

State officials have issued a warning about two deer being positive for the fatal chronic wasting disease in West Texas. Here ...

If dove hunting is the appetizer of fall hunting, the opening of deer season on Nov. 1 for most of the state’s million or so hunters is the main course. While the landscape has changed over the years ...

No state has more white-tailed deer than Texas. That makes it one of the best places in the world to observe a wild ritual known as the deer rut—the annual mating season. Each fall, bucks throw ...

Texas Game Wardens have uncovered a sprawling network of illegal deer breeders and smugglers engaged in the black-market wildlife trade, they say. The case stems from a previous deer smuggling bust ...

In one of the more brazen acts of the 2025 Texas legislative session, a lawmaker who breeds high-fence deer has introduced a law to abolish the state fish-and-game agency that also helps regulate the ...

A hunter searching for deer in West Texas stumbled upon what was originally thought to be a stump - but turned out to be an ultra-rare fossil. The hunter was visiting O2 Ranch, one of the largest ...