State and local officials were battling a wildfire Monday afternoon in Bastrop County as the region experiences elevated fire ...

O nce a quaint spot in the Lost Pines region of Central Texas, Bastrop has transformed in recent years from a sleepy stop off Interstate 21 into a bustling pseudo-suburb of Austin. It's now one of the ...

Multiple agencies contained a wildfire in the northwest part of Bastrop State Park, said Bastrop City Officials Saturday evening. They said the fire never threatened any structures or people.

All but about 100 acres of the 6,000-acre Bastrop State Park have been blackened by fire, the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department says, and they’ve posted this video to show why. With surprising ...

BASTROP - From a hilltop known as "The Scenic Outlook," Nicholas McClendon scanned thousands of acres of Central Texas until he spotted something familiar: the green crown of a pine tree. "That used ...

A wildfire that erupted on Sunday in Bastrop County has been mostly contained following heavy overnight rainfall and a sustained emergency response, officials with the Texas A&M Forest Service said ...

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BASTROP COUNTY — Without intervention, the long-term future of the pine forest that constitutes Bastrop State Park is bleak. Almost a year after Bastrop County wildfires burned all but 240 acres of ...

BASTROP, Texas — Todd McClanahan surveys the fire-blackened tree trunks poking out of a thick carpet of ash, a normally green world turned black and gray. “You should have seen it in color,” says ...

Courtyard by Marriott in Bastrop. The 63,603-square-foot project at 1651 Hwy. 71 E. in Bastrop, which is scheduled to be completed by Dec. 25, 2026, has an estimated construction cost of $10 million, ...

The Hoffman ranch has been hit by three of them along with a smaller blaze several years ago. The worst — for Hoffman and everyone else — was the Bastrop County Complex Fire in 2011, which burned at ...