AUSTIN (KXAN) — Lake Buchanan has reached a water level of 1020 feet for the first time since March 2005, an amount that is now considered full, but has not always been the case. This week, the Lake ...

AUSTIN, Texas — May 2024 brought beneficial rain to Austin and especially our Highland Lakes system here in Central Texas. The reservoirs and dams along the Colorado River provide over a million ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — While Lake Travis floods, its sister reservoir to the north, Lake Buchanan, remains just below full, and it will stay that way for years, according to the Lower Colorado River ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Though some areas of Central Texas saw heavier totals overnight, a beneficial soaking of up to 1.33 inches in the Lake Buchanan inflow region is helping boost the lake level even ...

Tim Mohan is intimately familiar with Lake Buchanan, the northernmost of the six Highland Lakes that squiggle through the Hill Country toward Austin. The outdoorsman can point out all the most ...

BURNET COUNTY, Texas — Lake Buchanan has officially been designated as "infested" with zebra mussels, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) announced Thursday. This means that there is an ...

For the first time in more than six years, several floodgates opened Buchanan Dam. On Monday, the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) stated that four floodgates opened. This comes after recent ...

Charles Tischler had no trouble spotting the white-throated caracara and red-tailed hawks wheeling through the sky above Lake Buchanan on Sunday. But those aren’t the birds that Tischler, a ...

Following historic flash flooding during the Fourth of July weekend, a Central Texas lake has hit its highest water levels in 20 years — even after the Lower Colorado River Authority opened its ...