Night hunting on private land could return to southeast Texas as regulators weigh new gear and a longer alligator season.

New walkways, a picnic pavilion and security lighting are headed to the 23-acre Heights-area park.

The alligator's mouth had to be temporarily secured during its rescue and transport to Fannett.

Two new playgrounds, a drawbridge and a grassy hill are planned — but construction waits on donors.

LSU researchers tracked nine great whites to Flower Garden Banks, one traveling nearly 3,800 kilometers.

A $100,000 gift and new grant money are fueling a push to replant the island's hurricane-battered oleanders, starting on 25th Street.

Only TX-5 and TX-1 are set to open as Galveston Bay's oyster fleet braces for another lean season after a rough summer.

Proctor Plaza Park could get three basketball goals back, but the city skipped a planned community survey first.

Kirby, who once appeared on Good Morning America, will leave the McNair habitat with mom Shanti and sister Joy, a herpesvirus survivor.

Five eyelash vipers hatched with working fangs and venom already in place, while Houston Zoo welcomed its first-ever Hosmer's spiny-tailed skinks.

A Museum District retreat and a backyard animal sanctuary open to the public for a single Saturday tour.

Buchanan's Native Plants throws a free fall festival this Saturday to mark four decades of native gardening in the Heights.

One Houston resident says he's now finding a dozen or more dead hummingbirds where he once found just a few.