Outdoors enthusiasts in Texas can look forward to a new park to explore in the coming years: The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department recently purchased a 2,000-plus acre tract of land in the Hill Country with the goal of turning it into a state park.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has purchased more than 2,000 acres of land in Burnet County for the creation of a new state park.

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The land is right across the Colorado River from Colorado Bend State Park. The new park may be open in about two years.

ICE said it made 956 arrests on Sunday across Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, Austin, Texas and Adams County, Colorado.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) has purchased 2,020 acres of land in Burnet County, north-west of Austin, which it plans to use for a new state park. The land cost $35 million and was funded via money raised from sporting goods sales tax and a one-time funding appropriation, according to The Dallas Morning News.

A man died after he was hit by the object over the weekend at a track meet at the University of Colorado's Colorado Springs campus.

The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

Almost $900,000 has been awarded to various community projects across Texas in the latest round of grants by the Lower Colorado River Authority.

How Texas will reconstruct and resurrect its pitching staff is the biggest question that new head coach Jim Schlossnagle must answer this spring.

Whether interested in crafting or attending an art gallery viewing, there is something for everyone to check out this February and March.

Drexel at Northeastern, 3 p.m. Cornell at Dartmouth, 6 p.m. Princeton at Yale, 6 p.m. Delaware at Towson, 6:30 p.m. Columbia at Harvard, 7 p.m.