Ranch properties are more desirable than ever — and not just as places to get away for a weekend. More buyers are spending all year on one, or perhaps half the year in a city and half the year at their ranch. With their wide-open spaces and endless ...

Asking $9.76 million, Champion Angora Ranch —named in homage to its history of rearing award-winning angora goats—now extends 4,795 acres across two parcels, almost twice the size of its footprint when it was last on the market in 2024. It’s on the outskirts of Sonora, some 200 miles west of Austin in the Edwards Plateau.

The long-running legal battle over leaking oil wells quietly ends.