BASTROP, La. (KNOE) - The Louisiana Office of State Fire Marshal (SFM) announced Friday it is investigating a deadly house ...

BASTROP, La. (KNOE) - The Louisiana State Fire Marshall investigators are on the scene of a deadly house fire in Bastrop.

The Elgin Courier - serves Elgin, Texas, and wider Bastrop County. Founded by Miles Hill, the paper has been published weekly since 1890 ...

BASTROP COUNTY, Texas — As historic wildfires torch California, people in Bastrop are still recovering from a fire that made history there. It was the most destructive fire in Texas, killing two ...

Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit on Jan. 19, accusing Asplundh Tree Expert Company of neglect in connection to the 2011 Bastrop Complex Fire. The claim is that the company, contracted by ...

By 2:33pm, 13 minutes into the event, the Bastrop Sheriff’s Office began evacuating people from the area. The fires set off what was to become known as the Bastrop County Complex fire, which burned ...

A lack of rainfall for an extended period of time The dry conditions posing a risk of large, dangerous and fast-moving wildfires Meteorologists not forecasting a change in the dry conditions in the ...