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I’m planning to pull old tires, plastic bottles and other garbage out of the Colorado River downstream of Austin on Saturday, and couldn’t be happier. The eighth annual LoCo Trash Bash, organized by Austin’s funkiest fly fishing guide, Alvin Dedeaux, is scheduled for...

If you’ve paddled the Devils River or leaped off a rope swing into the Frio, you know that springs, creeks and rivers make Texas special. The newest documentary from Texas filmmaker Ben Masters, “Deep in the Heart 2: Texas Rivers,” focuses on the state’s water, and...

One of my longtime journalism sources, former Big Bend Superintendent Bob Krumenaker, sent out more information about what’s happening at Big Bend National Park. Contractors broke ground on Wednesday, but Customs and Border Protection still won’t say exactly what...

I took my first swim lessons at Northwest District Pool in 1970, more than a decade after it opened as the first 50-meter Olympic-sized pool in Austin. In the ensuing years, my sisters and I spent long afternoons there, leaving our belongings in wire baskets behind...