A bill to eliminate the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is a response to landowner rights as it relates to the state’s ...

A Texas lawmaker who breeds deer wants to abolish Texas Parks and Wildlife, which helps regulate deer breeders in the state.

The deer were killed at RW Trophy Ranch, a 1,500-acre business near Terrell, Texas, owned by Robert Williams. In 2021 one of Williams’ deer had tested positive for CWD and he reported the incident.

Wildlife officials in Texas shot and killed nearly 250 white-tailed deer, most of which had so-called "zombie deer disease", ...

Last week, a woman infected with measles gave birth at University Medical Center Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, ...

Two hunters who ate meat from a population of deer known to have chronic wasting disease − or "zombie deer disease" − developed similar neurological conditions and died, raising concerns that ...

It also comes with substantial risk for CWD spread and transmission. Texas is one of a handful of states that allows licensed deer breeders to release captive whitetails into the wild, as long as ...

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RELATED: Illegal white-tail deer smuggling operation discovered in Texas Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a fatal neurological disease and can devastate deer populations by silently spreading ...

Grant County, in the northeast part of the state, was added to the state's CWD containment area in 2015 because it is near ...