Bastrop County

A former Texas police officer has admitted that he fatally shot his pregnant girlfriend, reversing his not guilty plea and bringing his capital murder case to a close just months before he was scheduled to go on trial. Ex-Austin officer VonTrey Clark will be sentenced to life in prison without parole under the plea agreement, the Austin American-Statesmen reported. Prosecutors…

It’s exactly one week until death row inmate Rodney Reed is scheduled to be put to death. But as the clock ticks closer, the voices of those calling for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to stop the execution only grow louder.

Supporters of a Texas death row inmate who is facing lethal injection in less than two weeks for a murder he says he didn’t commit are mounting a final push in the courts and on social media to stop his execution, which is being called into question by lawmakers, pastors, celebrities and the European Union. Read More

Supporters of a Texas death row inmate who is facing lethal injection in less than two weeks for a murder he says he didn’t commit are mounting a final push in the courts and on social media to stop his execution, which is being called into question by lawmakers, pastors, celebrities and the European Union. Read More

A former Austin police officer could wind up on death row when he’s tried for capital murder for the fatal shooting of his pregnant girlfriend.

The Texas Department of Transportation has collected more than 10 million cubic feet of debris – or the equivalent of about 186 football fields – in the four districts most impacted by Hurricane Harvey since landfall Aug. 25.

A judge has ordered an Austin police detective to stand trial on claims she was criminally negligent in a case that could ultimately address to what lengths gun owners must go to secure their firearms.

An appeal to allow additional DNA testing in a Texas death penalty case has been denied.

After wildfires burned thousands of acres in Central Texas, volunteers are planting seedlings to restore the environment in those areas.

Shooting at Texas apartment complex leaves at least 4 dead.

A judge has begun hearing testimony in the retrial of a former Central Texas sheriff’s deputy charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a woman on her porch.

Two people have died in a fire in a double-wide mobile home in the Central Texas town of Bastrop.

A Central Texas state park has reopened following a wildfire that burned 7 square miles before being fully contained over the rainy weekend.

Officials say a Central Texas wildfire that burned 7 square miles is 100 percent contained and under control.

A team of Arlington firefighters is back home after spending 10 days battling wildfires across Central Texas.

Firefighters have managed to contain about 60 percent of a Central Texas wildfire near Austin although their progress is being threatened by higher winds and lower humidity.

Authorities in Central Texas say firefighters are still several days away from controlling a wildfire that’s destroyed dozens of homes but they said enough progress has been made to allow some residents to return to their neighborhoods.

Wildfires that have burned more than 4,200 acres in Central Texas and imperiled hundreds of homes threatened to grow Thursday in parched forestland that is still recovering from massive deadly blazes in 2011.

Dry grass, high winds and hot temperatures fueled several wildfires in North Texas Thursday.

A wildfire burning dozens of acres outside of the Central Texas town of Smithville has prompted the voluntary evacuation of a state park and a research center.