Hays County’s health department has been doing contact tracing since it found its first coronavirus-infected patient, and this method has helped the department hold down the spread of COVID-19 in several instances. “It has helped us to identify a couple of clusters that were linked back to people wh...

By Patrick Svitek The Texas Tribune Republican leaders in five Texas counties shared racist Facebook posts, some of which also floated conspiracy theories, leading Gov. Greg Abbott to call for two of them to resign. Abbott and other top Texas Republicans called for the resignation of the GOP chairs ...

Hays High School students including Megan Desu (left in top photo) lined Main Street in Buda on Saturday in a show of support for nationwide demonstrations against police brutality. Similar gatherings have been held in Kyle and San Marcos over the course of the past week.

State Rep. Erin Zwiener donated surgical face masks to community members in Buda, Kyle and Niederwald recently. She distributed them to senior living and rehabilitation centers, Hays CISD families and patrons at the Buda Farmers Market and Kyle Poco Loco. “For reopening Texas to succeed, we all must...

Linda Stewart (left) Orchard Park Lifestyle Enrichment coordinator, and community volunteer Jane Moore showed off certificates given to veterans at Orchard Park Assisted Living and Memory Care in observance of Veterans Appreciation Month. They were distributed at a veterans Appreciation barbecue.

Vice Adm. Mary M. Jackson, who hails from Wimberley and retired from the Navy as Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC), was honored during a change of command ceremony onboard the Washington Navy Yard. She is retiring after 32 years of naval service. Under the Chief of Naval Operations, CNIC ...

Astronaut Ed White popped open the hatch of Gemini 4 on June 3, 1965 and stepped out into the boundless and beautiful universe.   If ever there was a son who followed in his father’s footsteps, it was San Antonio native Edward Higgins White II. Ed Sr., a graduate of West Point, made a career of the ...

Six months ago, pre COVID-19, no one thought of wearing a face mask. Even as awareness of the coronavirus began to spread, wearing one was a subject of debate. But now, covering one’s face as a way of preventing the spread is simply a matter of course. The small piece of cloth has come a new, albeit...

Fireworks exploded over Tiger Stadium in Dripping Springs May 29 to celebrate the Class of 2020 as part of the Senior Sunset show. Like elsewhere, graduation ceremonies for Dripping Springs High School were delays by the COVID-19 pandemic.    

Black Lives Matter. Why is it that so many people cannot understand those three simple words?.   Black Lives Matter. More puzzling is how such a simple, innocuous phrase stirs up so much vitriolic, internal hatred in people. Black Lives Matter. Maybe even worse is how some attempt to rationalize the...