A proposed hotel in Buda was unanimously struck down by city leaders at Tuesday’s city council meeting. The proposed hotel, Sleep Inn & Suites, would have been located on Main Street along the east side of the Interstate 35 overlay and would have been built in place of a Castrol Premium Lube Express...

By Shannon Najmabadi and Daniel Levitt, Texas Tribune P rivate jets, chartered cars, visits to fancy restaurants. College coaches in Texas and across the country are fanning out, like they do every spring, to high school football stadiums and basketball courts to recruit the most promising players t...

Tech industry slowly making it way to Dripping Springs The tech industry could slowly be creeping its way down Highway 290 toward Dripping Springs as some companies look for quieter communities where employees can raise families. Austin has already claimed start-ups, but Dripping Springs could be ho...

by Alex Samuels, Texas Tribune A nonbinding opinion issued Monday by Attorney General Ken Paxton continues a battle between lawmakers, restaurants and Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller over the regulation of scales used to measure food. Under state law, roughly 17,725 retailers, including grocery ...

A positive disposition toward short-term rentals (STR) in Kyle was the reaction from the majority of residents who participated in a Planning and Zoning commission (P&Z) survey on the matter. With 502 respondents chiming in, around 48 percent voted that STR should be allowed with regulations, while1...

More than a year after opening their doors, the owners of a wedding venue located in Dripping Springs’ extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) might be required to submit site development permits as none were found on file. An investigation was launched by the city of Dripping Springs over a month ago b...

Buda’s annual audit on financial reports received the highest level of assurance for Fiscal Year 2016-17, according to a press release. The “clean,” or unmodified audit means the “city’s financial records have been determined by the audit firm to be free of any misrepresentations,” according to the ...

With applications due at the end of the week, Buda officials hope the third round of a program designed to maximize downtown businesses’ advertising dollars will bring in more tourism for the entire historic district. The Buda Main Street Department launched the co-marketing program in October, Main...

The Texas Tree Recovery Campaign, a partnership between the Arbor Day Foundation and Tree Folks, planted 11,500 new trees with a project that began February 1 along the Blanco River. The project was done thanks to the generous financial support of Google. These new trees planted by Google employees ...

More loan options to finance energy efficient commercial structural improvements could be in the works for Hays County. Hays County Commissioners discussed authorizing more administrators, or dealers, for their Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program April 10. The PACE program is a commercial ...