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AUSTIN – The 2025 Toyota ShareLunker season rewrote the record books again thanks to 469 anglers who entered a record 1,071 lunker largemouth bass into the program throughout the year from 93 Texas ...

Jennifer Fisher’s 9.85-pound Bass Pro Shops Lunker Class fish caught on March 20, 2025, at Joe Pool Reservoir in the Fort Worth area was randomly selected as the winner of a $5,000 Bass Pro Shops ...

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Ross Gomez and the big bass he calls “Queen Bertha” are back in the news again. Gomez is a fun-loving angler from Post who spends a considerable amount of time fishing from the public dock at the Sam ...

It’s February in Texas and big bass are biting all across the state. Through Feb. 11, the Toyota ShareLunker program had taken in five Legacy Lunker entries from five different lakes. Two are pending ...

The Texas Water Development Board has approved the 2026 Regional Water Plans, including the Concho River Water Project identified in the Region F Water Plan as a key future water supply for San Angelo ...

City health authorities are joining a network that counters new pathogens and emerging outbreaks. By Joseph Goldstein Two weeks after the Trump administration formally withdrew the United States from ...

Boston is dodging a major bullet in the weather forecast this weekend. We are avoiding a worst-case scenario as a storm will not track close enough to New England to deliver what could have been a ...

With the U.S. Supreme Court clearing the way for California’s newly gerrymandered congressional maps to be used in this year’s midterm elections, the stage is set for California Democrats to try to ...