Hurricane Harvey, the most powerful storm to strike Texas since 1961, slammed the Texas...
The city of San Marcos continues making preparations as Hurricane Harvey approaches the Texas...
FROM SUBMITTED REPORTS A suspect in the sexual assault of a child in San...
In a surprise move, workers at the University of Texas at Austin removed multiple...
It’s been one week since Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas coast. While the rainfall may be in decline, the floodwaters are only beginning to recede. Here’s what you need to know.
The city of San Marcos is making preparations in case tropical weather in the Gulf of Mexico reaches our area and is urging residents to do the same.
Texas is home to some of the largest bat colonies in the U.S., and 13 of them are located in Central Texas. Mexican free-tailed bats dominate the Texas skies in comparison to other species. More than 31 other species of bats live in the Lone Star State.
A fox exhibiting unusual behavior in San Marcos has tested positive for rabies, the second such case in fewer than 30 days, city officials said.
San Marcos police are looking for two suspects in an aggravated robbery at a payday loan store Wednesday afternoon.
Union Pacific can no longer, in good faith, constrain its growth by the conceptual discussions or previous expressions of interest between the parties.”
I have no doubt that the victims of this flooding will build an even stronger future for themselves, their families and the State of Texas.”
It came from me wanting to give kids in inner cities a safe outlet, where they can form the bonds I know can be made from having somewhere awesome to go and be a part of something they enjoy.”
In establishing a new distribution center in San Marcos, Amazon is fulfilling the needs not only of its customers, but the entire community … This project is yet another testament to the fact that Texas remains the best state in the nation to do business.”
I believe it is appropriate to attempt to revise the code rather than punish the individuals who purchased general commercial property and are in the process of permitting with a site plan that meets all code and zoning requirements.”
It’s just a huge victory for Hays County. I’m kind of in shock a little bit.”
It is the fiscally, morally, academically responsible thing we can do.”
The skills that you need in this field not gender related. … It’s hard for everyone.”
This is a very serious issue. It’s putting people’s lives in danger. ... It kind of made me angry.”
There’s no free lunch. Investors are happy to take on risk, but they’re going to charge you for it.”
It’s been one week since Hurricane Harvey hit the...
The city of San Marcos continues making preparations as...
The city of San Marcos is making preparations in...
FROM SUBMITTED REPORTS A suspect in the sexual assault...
In a surprise move, workers at the University of...
A bill that largely relies on increased penalties to...
The death toll from the weekend’s immigrant-smuggling tragedy in...
Texas is home to some of the largest bat...
Senate Bill 15 would pre-empt local ordinances on mobile...
A fox exhibiting unusual behavior in San Marcos has...
Firefighters have contained a control burn that jumped its...
The San Marcos City Council has chosen Bert Lumbreras...
Kyle police arrested Giancarlo Arman Perez, 18, of Kyle...
The Hill Country Alliance’s annual photo contest attempts to bridge the disconnect between abstract ideals of environmental conservation and the very real consequences of failing to achieve those goals.
Less than 24 hours into Texas Water Safari 2015, team 150 — the Texas Flood — leads the pack of 71 paddlers still in contention for the raw 265-mile river race from San Marcos to Seadrift. Six teams have...
As the decade drew to a close, Hays County families were still in the Great Depression’s tight grip. In 1939 and 1940, prolific documentary photographer Russell Werner Lee passed through San Marcos during a tour of Texas and the...
Striking photographs captured across the Texas Hill Country will be featured in a 2015 calendar published by the Austin-based Hill Country Alliance.
Not long after Texas State University’s gleaming new Performing Arts Center started going up, a wall between campus and city came down.
Two men sat in the shade of a green and orange canopy, and appeared none too thrilled to see my camera, perhaps afraid the attention might draw the ire of the health department or some other bureaucratic busybodies.
On the surface, the park's attractions seemed almost random. Where else could you visit a replica Spanish mission, cruise the skies in a European-style gondola, play tic-tac-toe with a chicken, watch a pig swim and gaze upon the underwater...
The Hays County Commissioners Court whittled a $352.6 million transportation wish list to $131.4 million during the course...
The Texas State University System Board of Regents has authorized construction of a University Events Center, which includes...
A new Best Buy internet retail sales operation center will start with 25 employees and add more in...
The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization gave the Lone Star Rail District an all but fatal kick in...
The Hays County Commissioners Court voted Tuesday to pay $100,000 toward the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District’s...
Downtown businessman Ruben Becerra filed paperwork today to enter the race for San Marcos mayor, setting up a...
Much of the Texas Hill Country still has night skies dark enough to see the Milky Way, but...
San Marcos-based EVO Entertainment Group won approval this week of a permit to serve alcohol at its new...
This summer, the Travis County Underwater Recovery Team faces two big challenges: a short-staffed dive team and more...
Veteran council member John Thomaides announced a second bid for San Marcos mayor this week, a day after...
A popular Austin-based Tex-Mex chain has signed a lease to open a restaurant in San Marcos this summer.
EDITOR: Only people spending taxpayer dollars approve of massive surgical procedures without getting more than one opinion. Thus I was...
Kyle police have confirmed the existence of four arrest warrants for the offense of manslaughter for Wilson Rene...
Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) directors approved the purchase of vintage San Marcos River water rights from the family...
Texas State University performers will preview an original opera based on the life of Lady Bird Johnson as...
UPDATED 3:53 p.m. FEB. 19: Investigators have identified a San Marcos man allegedly at fault in a...
The San Marcos City Council appointed two new planning and zoning commissioners and reappointed a third on Tuesday...
More than a year after cascading problems brought the project to a standstill, construction has resumed on a...
The monthly surcharge — $1 for residential customers and $5 for businesses — was approved in December by...
The Texas Department of Transportation has completed an $11.6 million package of Interstate 35 construction intended to improve...
Union Pacific will no longer consider rerouting its Central Texas freight traffic to make way for commuter rail...
ELECTION 2016 | Barely more than a year ago, John Cyrier (R-Lockhart) squeaked into the Texas...
ELECTION 2016 VIDEO | Former Hays County Sheriff Tommy Ratliff (R-Kyle) — running to regain the...
Less than nine months after a wide swath of Hays County was devastated by a flood of nearly...
A San Marcos man charged with the city‘s first homicide of the year told investigators he killed his...
Interstate 35 — all main lanes in both directions — will be closed nightly starting this weekend for...
Hours before 20-year-old Francisco Sierra was fatally shot in the head Friday morning, San Marcos police were dispatched...
San Marcos police have a suspect in custody after a man was found dead in his home at...
5:59 p.m. JAN. 22 | San Marcos police are searching for a disabled man last seen...
Following a 4-3 vote at a special San Marcos CISD board meeting Tuesday evening, Superintendent Mark Eads will...
Greater San Marcos Partnership president Adriana Cruz is among three people appointed today to the state’s new Economic...
A sports insider’s report that Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis owns property between San Antonio and Austin has...
An updated analysis presented to city council members Jan. 5 showed that the construction of a controversial student...
Friends mourned San Marcos area native Sara Mutschlechner’s death — and celebrated her life — with a candlelight...
Retired San Antonio school district chief Sylvester J. Perez withdrew his name from consideration for San Marcos CISD...
UPDATED 12:57 p.m. JAN. 6 | Eric Jamal Johnson, the active-duty U.S. Marine charged in the...
San Marcos residents don’t have to travel light-years away to see the stars. The university’s observatory is opened...
Contractors working for Hays County began the process on Monday of installing flatbed railroad cars over the Blanco...
A new report from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute named the stretch of I-35 between U.S. 290 N...
The financially troubled Spanish company whose subsidiary is under contract with the city of San Antonio to build...
Gov. Greg Abbott's upcoming trip to Cuba comes as the politics surrounding the United States' relationship with the...
Six Central Texas counties — Hays, Caldwell, Guadalupe, Comal, Travis and Bastrop — are among 15 counties formally...
James David Burleigh, 28, is charged with three counts of arson, second-degree felonies punishable by two to 20...
The San Antonio City Council on Wednesday unanimously — albeit cautiously — approved plans for a sizable water...
UPDATED 8:41 a.m. OCT. 28 | Seven days into Louis Antonio Ramos Jr.’s murder trial, a Hays...
Convicted murderer Bernie Tiede's new sentencing trial will be moved from Carthage — where he killed 81-year-old Marjorie...
In Wimberley, shelters are still struggling to house lost pets resulting from the Memorial Day weekend flood along...
As the 19th anniversary of Marjorie Nugent's murder looms, her killer, Bernhardt "Bernie" Tiede II, returns to an...
Louis Antonio Ramos Jr. faces up to to life in prison after his being convicted on Monday of...
Electro Purification LLC, the Houston-based company whose groundwater pumping plans have roiled Hay County politics, has applied for...
Because work on construction of a permanent Blanco River bridge is moving forward faster than expected, an interim...
When anchor tenants — Target, Beall’s, JC Penney and Best Buy — relocated in 2009 to the Stone...
WITH VIDEO | A full supermoon lunar eclipse – the first since 1982 and the last until 2033...
ALFRED L. McALISTER, a UT School of Public Health professor, writes that ‘prompt action is needed to prevent...
Police have arrested a 67-year-old man they say shot two New Braunfels High School band members with a...
The average cost of an owner-built tiny house is $23,000, a tiny fraction of the average home price...
With construction of a permanent replacement not expected to begin until sometime next summer, Hays County Pct. 4...
A San Marcos woman is in custody at the Hays County jail after police say she accidentally ran...
In a rebuttal to commentary we published last week, University of Texas biology professor MOLLY CUMMINGS writes that...
THOMAS HARDY, the Meadow Center’s chief science officer, says there is ‘no credible scientific evidence’ that removing Cape’s...