bastrop county

The federal government has earmarked $31 million for Texas wildfires recovery with most of the money going to devastated Bastrop County.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan on Friday announced the Texas share as part of $400 million in nationwide natural disaster assistance.

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On the campaign trail so far, Gov.

Rick Perry has been openly hostile to the federal government and the role it plays in support of American citizens and the states in which we live.

But when the wildfires began destroying homes in Bastrop county this week, it was the government that Texas citizens turned to, not a corporation.

A former roads foreman for Bastrop County Commissioner David Goertz pled guilty on Monday to tampering with a governmental record.

A two car collision in Bastrop County at F.M. 812 and State Highway 21 overnight injured more than a dozen people.

Bastrop County officials say they had to call in Austin-Travis County EMS for assistance.