No state has more white-tailed deer than Texas. That makes it one of the best places in the world to observe a wild ritual known as the deer rut—the annual mating season. Each fall, bucks throw ...

It’s showtime for Texas deer hunters. The 2024-25 general hunting season for white-tailed deer opened statewide at 30 minutes before sunrise on Nov. 2. Most whitetail junkies will agree: There is ...

AUSTIN, Texas — What started as a routine traffic stop by a Texas game warden in Montgomery County has turned into something much bigger, according to the Texas Wildlife Department. As we reported in ...

Feb. 6—AUSTIN — Texas Game Wardens have concluded an investigation that led to the arrest and conviction of two individuals involved in illegally moving captive white-tailed deer. According to a news ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Texas lawmaker poses with a whitetail deer. In one of the more brazen acts of the 2025 Texas legislative session, a lawmaker who ...

During a traffic stop outside Houston earlier this month, Texas game wardens caught two deer breeders trying to move captive whitetails illegally across the state. The men pleaded guilty, and they ...

Dr. Jacob Dykes with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension has studied white-tailed deer for the past decade. “Some of my research includes evaluating the effects of heat on deer and cattle interactions and ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas — A Texas deer breeder and his partner were caught trying to smuggle improperly identified white-tail deer, also known as "ghost deer," across the state, according to a ...

More than 750,000 people hunt white-tailed deer in Texas each year, according to a Texas A&M survey. An extensive investigation into "ghost deer" shows how wildlife smugglers may be helping spread a ...

When it comes to deer hunting these are the good old days in eastern Texas, and for that matter, most of the state. The regular season opens statewide Nov. 2, and while the situation is different from ...

State wildlife officials really want Texans to know that they'd better not try to mess with white-tailed deer. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) announced Thursday that two individuals—a ...