The need to diversify revenue is driving the Emergency Service District (ESD) 6 to take a proposition for implementation of a sales tax to area voters this May. The proposition calls for one quarter of one percent of sales tax to be implemented within unincorporated areas in its 244-square-mile dist...

The fight over Hays County groundwater is bubbling once again after legislation in the 85th Texas Legislature has drawn the ire of a local state representative.     At the center of the controversy is the 5,000-acre Needmore Ranch, located near Wimberley   and owned by south Texas beer distributor G...

The search continues for a Dripping Springs man suspected of shooting and injuring a male family member earlier this month. Authorities are asking for the public’s help in locating Grosbin A. Sabillon, 30, of Dripping Springs, who fled the scene of a March 8 aggravated assault case at a Dripping Spr...

Should larger cities be allowed to protest the discharge permit requests by smaller towns? State Rep. Jason Isaac (R-Dripping Springs) doesn’t think so, and he filed a state House bill to bar larger cities from protesting discharge applications from smaller municipalities. House Bill 3004, if approv...

The Dripping Springs Chamber of Commerce will host a forum for Dripping Springs City Council candidates April 4. The event will be held at Dripping Springs Ranch Park and Event Center beginning at 7:00 p.m. and ending at 8:30 p.m. Doors will be opened at 6:30 p.m. The purpose of the forum, according...

A Dripping Springs native who is a science teacher at Lockhart High was arrested Monday after police allege she engaged in an improper relationship with a 17-year-old student.  Sarah Madden Fowlkes, 27, was booked into the Caldwell County Jail on a charge of improper relationship between educator an...

An Austin man was killed March 14 after he lost control of his motorcycle while traveling eastbound on U.S. Highway 290 outside of Dripping Springs. Robert Dunn, 55, of Austin, was identified as the victim in the single-vehicle accident, according to DPS officials. Dunn was operating a 2017 Harley D...

Negotiations continued after an executive session during Thursday’s Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (BSEACD) meeting on Dripping Springs’ request to discharge treated effluent into the Onion Creek Watershed. The BSEACD reviewed with its attorney the draft settlement prepared by ...

A Hays County man is recovering after he was shot following a verbal altercation with another man at a Dripping Springs residence Wednesday night. Authorities are now searching for Grosbin A. Sabillon, 30, who is suspected of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Grosbin A. Sabillon According to ...

Dripping Springs city officials have thrown their support behind two potential apartment complexes that have applied for federal tax credits to help create workforce housing. Earlier this month, the Dripping Springs City Council approved resolutions in support of applications filed by the Western Sp...