U.S. Senator John Cornyn and U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales introduced the bill to add thousands of acres to Big Bend National Park.

The Cocke County community is rebuilding six months since the area was devastated by Hurricane Helene. As a major attraction in the area, rafting companies, like Ober Mountain Whitewater ...

The time to complete our bucket-list family adventures is coming to an end, and I’m not ready. We only have two more years to ...

Ethan Buckley has caught the giant pumpkin bug.(ABC Riverina: Jess Scully) Ethan says he tried to grow a pumpkin big enough to row down the river, but it was about a quarter of the size of what it ...

Say hello to the wooly devil. The type of sunflower is a new plant species, identified in Big Bend National Park in Texas. Ovicula biradiata, as it is formally known, is especially notable for being ...

When Christy Perry, a young Houston woman, went missing while hiking in Big Bend National Park in 2023, it prompted an all-hands-on-deck response. The park’s search-and-rescue team, which ...

Scientists have several new species to study, including a fuzzy plant that was recently found in Texas’s Big Bend National Park. Park volunteer Deb Manley and supervisor Cathy Hoyt stumbled ...

Half a million people will visit the one thousand square miles that make up Big Bend National Park and that impactful "big bend" in the Rio Grande each year. But visiting the park could look ...

“The issue is, if you’ve ever been to Big Bend, especially if you’ve been to the eastern edge of the park, if you’ve ever been on a river trip in Big Bend, you know that it’s not an entirely sterile ...