(CNN) - Staff members at Big Bend National Park discovered a brand-new plant. They spotted several odd-looking plants on desert rocks in a remote part of the park. Genetic analysis revealed that ...

Under the proposed legislation, dubbed the "Big Bend National Park Boundary Adjustment Act," the National Park Service (NPS) ...

The bill would give the NPS permission to expand up to that 6,100 acres as long as it stays within the means specified.

Encompassing the rugged Chisos Mountains and Chihuahuan Desert in southwest Texas, Big Bend is one of the nation’s largest ...

Hundreds of troops and armored vehicles have been deployed to Big Bend National Park in Texas to curb illegal immigration.

It’s no secret that West Texas is a big dry desert, but that doesn’t stop the natural beauty of the Big Bend National Park. “Believe it or not there are mountains in Texas,” Tom Vandenberg, Park ...

A new bill proposes expanding Big Bend National Park by 6,100 acres to conserve the Terlingua watershed ecosystem.

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas — A Texas treasure is the focus of a bipartisan bill recently introduced in Congress. If passed, it would expand Big Bend National Park in West Texas. U.S. Senators ...