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It was 16 miles from State Highway 118 to the office where visitors pick up the key, past the Bad Rabbit Café, then a bit farther on unpaved roads to the Christmas Mountains property. The key was ...

AUSTIN — Environmental groups embraced Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson's plan Thursday to give the remote Christmas Mountains to the Texas State University System after fighting him four years ...

A young man whose body was found in the White Mountains on Christmas Day marks the latest in a troubling trend of untrained hikers taking to the mountains alone without anticipating dangerous and ...