BASTROP COUNTY, Texas — Construction is underway across Bastrop County to bring high-speed internet to thousands of rural families who have struggled with slow or unreliable connections. Bastrop ...

After years of dreaming of an outpost in the woods, a former Microsoft employee liked it so much he moved there full time. Dan Wheeler built a cabin by the Wenatchee River with help from the ...

With week 10 in the books, the final games of the regular season are upon us. Central Texas has four unbeaten teams remaining: Lake Travis, Anderson, Bastrop and Regents. But everyone knows that the ...

Once a quaint spot in the Lost Pines region of Central Texas, Bastrop has transformed in recent years from a sleepy stop off Interstate 21 into a bustling pseudo-suburb of Austin. It's now one of the ...

Looking for a place they could enjoy their passion for fishing, a couple found much more: two cabins on 14 acres of land. Finding a property with a cabin on it wasn’t even a priority when Jennifer ...

Though Bears coach Jake Griedl spent a good portion of his postgame speech Thursday noting that the program is still building an identity of toughness, the team dazzled during a 69-7 win over McCallum ...

A Central Texas town known for pine forests and barbecue is at the center of an ambitious real estate play, along with Elon Musk’s latest tunneling experiment. Bastrop officials are weighing plans for ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A couple of A-frame homes on a wooded Lake Arrowhead lot with lake access recently hit the market for $1.995 million. Nestled among towering fir trees near ...

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It would be a simple building surrounded by pines, maybe 400 square feet, with bookshelves, a woodstove and a sleeping loft. A trail would lead to the lake and you’d pad along it barefoot, inhaling ...

The deep alpine lake straddling the state lines of California and Nevada needs no introduction—Lake Tahoe’s sparkling, cobalt blue waters and sweeping Sierra Nevada mountain views have been ...