BASTROP COUNTY, Texas — With Election Day here, every vote matters. However, the fate of a $1.2 billion ballot item in Bastrop County was all in the hands of one person. Last August, the Elgin City ...

Bastrop County has banned most outdoor burning in its unincorporated areas because of wildfire risk from ongoing dry ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AUSTIN (KXAN) — Residents returned home Saturday night after a fire broke out near Highway 95 in Bastrop County and prompted ...

For a homeowner sitting at Bastrop County's median taxable homestead value of $290,103, the new rate translates to an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Labor Day weekend, 15 years ago, a wildfire that would become the most destructive in state history sparked just ...

The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority is planning two open houses this week on a possible expansion of the 290 toll ...

BASTROP COUNTY, Texas — The Bastrop County Sheriff's Office has identified the suspect involved in a police shooting Saturday night. According to the sheriff's office, deputies responded at ...

The Hoffman ranch has been hit by three of them along with a smaller blaze several years ago. The worst — for Hoffman and everyone else — was the Bastrop County Complex Fire in 2011, which burned at ...

Republican incumbent David Glass and write-in candidate Kat Hammer face off in the Nov. 3 election for Bastrop County ...

This past October was an unprecedented month for Bastrop County, as it marked the driest October in 130 years. This extreme dryness aligned with a broader regional and national trend of exceptionally ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Just minutes east of Austin, Bastrop County is emerging as ...

The Bastrop County Commissioners Court adopted a property tax rate of $0.4554 per $100 valuation to fund the Fiscal Year 2026-27 budget.