Outdoor Recreation

Starting this year, Texas boat operators — and teenagers taking driver’s education courses — will be introduced to new state laws covering safe boating practices, boat handling and emergency procedures, all in an effort to make recreational boating safer.

Dustin Ellerman, a 28-year-old summer camp director from Zavalla, is also a crack shot with a rifle. That's why Dustin will be featured in the upcoming third season of "Top Shot," a History Channel show where marksmen compete for a grand prize of $100,000.

If the size of this crocodile is any indication, these tourists are going to need a bigger boat. An 18-foot, 2-ton monster crocodile was photographed leaping from the water near a tour boat in Australia, 'The Early Show' reported. The croc is known locally as Brutus and was enticed by a tour guide offering kangaroo meat on a pole. The reptile is a star attraction among river tours that run through

Because of the ongoing drought, Angelina County Commissioners have voted to extend the official ban on outdoor burning, and they've also forbidden  all sales and private use of fireworks over the July 4th weekend.

Arizona residents get a faint glimpse of hope as officials allow approximately 7000 families to return to their homes.