Dia de los Muertos Festival Come out and celebrate your community and culture on Nov. 5 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at Lehman High School. Enjoy a day of tasty food, silent auction, family fun and performances by HCISD mariachi groups with special guests Texas State Mariachi Nuevo Generacion and Salsa del R...

By Bartee Haile he University of Texas lived up to its lofty billing as the best college team in the land on Nov. 2, 1941 by crushing SMU 34-0 for the sixth straight victory of the season. Dana X. Bible’s Longhorns looked invincible even to near-sighted sportswriters back east, who always tried to i...

By Katherine E. Casarez, Sociologist and advocate in the McCoy Family Shelter at HCWC ll across the country, the issue and impact of sexual violence on college campuses has been a dominant subject in conversations on student safety and gender-based violence. While the pervasiveness of campus sexual ...

Check out more photos from this weekend's festivities here. (photos by Moses Leos III and Samantha Smith) Buda police shut down Main Street Saturday for the Boo-Da Halloween Festival where residents of all ages and species came dressed in costumes of all kinds. There were witches and wizards, politi...

By Jerry Hall et’s hear it for our little buddy, the bat.   This beneficial creature is widely misunderstood, but no other group of Texas mammals is more important to the balance of nature. There are more than 32 species in Texas and most of them eat insects, often those that farmers find most damag...

Submitted report The Dripping Springs High School robotics team placed second in a 10 team field at the Capitol Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology (BEST) regional competition at Round Rock High Oct. 29. With the second-place finish, Dripping Springs advances to the state competition Dec. ...

Dripping Springs residents will come together Saturday as they work on a grassroots effort to end hunger in the area. The 19th annual Empty Bowls Project, which will be held at the Mercer Street Dance Hall, will raise money to help feed those in need in the Dripping Springs area.   Don’t Miss Out: T...

Nov. 8: Last chance to vote Early voting is underway for this general election. See a list of voting locations online at HaysNewsDispatch.com. First Thursdays extended Opportunities for local holiday shopping just got better. First Thursday Dripping Springs has been extended to include Thursday, Nov...