By Ashley Sava Hays County residents started seeing their annual notice of home appraisals in the mail this week. The Hays Central Appraisal District started sending out the notices — more than 76,000 of them — on May 1. And some homeowners aren’t happy about what they read in those letters. Yvonne ...

  Staff Report Union Pacific Railroad Police are investigating the death of a man who was struck by a train in San Marcos Friday. According to a City of San Marcos press release, the incident happened on the railroad tracks near Wonder World Drive at around 3:30 p.m. Police have not released the ide...

By Moses Leos III   Planning for future growth – and avoiding some of the pitfalls Austin faced over the past two decades – were just two reasons for the recent FM 150 West Character Plan project meeting. Nearly 200 Hays County residents came in and out of Thurman’s Mansion in Driftwood Wednesday ev...

    By ANDY SEVILLA A Hays County District Judge handed down a 60-year sentence Thursday to a Kyle man convicted in the 1986 aggravated kidnapping of a nine-year-old girl. Reynaldo Zamora, 61, was handed down the sentence after a brief punishment hearing Thursday. Judge Bruce Boyer of the 22nd Judic...

By Andy Sevilla In a nod of support to western Hays County residents concerned over unregulated commercial pumping of the Trinity Aquifer, Buda Council members unanimously approved a resolution supporting groundwater protection.  Buda’s support, however, comes with a few self-serving injunctions. Th...

By Andy Sevilla A bill that could extend groundwater protections beyond groundwater management districts is making its way through the legislature. State Representative Jason Isaac on Feb. 6 filed House Bill 1191, which would create a buffer zone of five miles beyond the boundaries of a priority gro...

By Andy Sevilla More than six miles of I-35 frontage road, from Kyle to San Marcos, is slated for improvement after the state awarded funds for the project in December. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is moving ahead with an overlay project on a portion of the southbound frontage road...

By Andy Sevilla A man, whose mother would not provide contact information to police, has been arrested three months after a warrant was issued stemming from a Kyle sexual assault charge, court documents state. Christian Blake Gonzalez, 21, was arrested Feb. 1 and is charged with aggravated sexual as...

E veryone should understand the tremendous importance and impact of the water wells that are now being drilled in the heart of Hays County.  This issue has made people a lot hotter than Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic.  But this act deserves this type of heat and concern – it’s a thrust into t...

  By ANDY SEVILLA A 21-year-old Louisiana man was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and resisting arrest following a gun scare at Texas State University last week. Anthony Marcell Davis, III was arrested Nov. 20 and charged with both Class A misdemeanors after police questioned and s...