FREESTONE COUNTY, Texas -- The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department voted unanimously to use eminent domain to seize a 5,000-acre property south of Dallas that included Fairfield Lake State Park on ...

AUSTIN, Texas — State Sen. Charles Schwertner has filed Senate Bill 1656 to try to save Fairfield Lake State Park, nearly a week after it was permanently closed. Feb. 28 was the last day the public ...

Earlier this year, it was announced that Fairfield Lake State Park was being closed to the public and sold to an investor who plans to build an exclusive residential community on the site, which would ...

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Natural Resources Coordinator Andy Sipocz, center, stands as Nick Boysen, left, and Kaitlyn Skinner Morris examine remains possibly belonging to a feral hog near ...

With temperatures dipping to 12 degrees at Fairfield Lake State Park in Texas, a park ranger was able to demonstrate a cool trick in which he froze a bottle of water just by shaking it. The ranger was ...

Editor’s Note: The photo featured in this story shows the existing Colorado Bend State Park, which is located across the river from the planned state park. AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Parks and Wildlife ...

LAMPASAS, Texas -- On a blistering June morning, Andy Sipocz brushes his fingers through the thick, sawgrass fronds rising higher than his head beside a creek in the Texas Hill Country. Around him, ...