Buda city leaders Nov. 7 took a step toward finalizing designs for several key projects under Proposition 3 of the November 2014 bond. By a unanimous vote, the Buda City Council approved a professional service agreement with RPS Klotz and Associates to finalize designs for three segments of the Main...

As the Kyle Police Department continues to step up enforcement of parking violations in area neighborhoods, one resident is concerned authorities didn’t give enough warning beforehand. William Pettit, a resident of Plum Creek in Kyle, said he was recently issued a $140 citation for parking the wrong...

The desire to add and improve Career and Technical Education (CTE) facilities across all Hays CISD high school campuses is driving a $13.1 million proposal that could be included in the May 2017 bond. Suzi Mitchell, Hays CISD CTE director, said the goal is to ensure district high school students, in...

yle is turning to its youth to help improve pedestrian mobility across the city. The Kyle Area Youth Advisory Council (KAYAC) last week held a community charette, or public meeting, to determine what types of sidewalks are needed in the city, said Lyler Ramos, KAYAC secretary. KAYAC’s initiative is ...

The Kyle city council approved spending $270,000 on a preliminary engineering study to remove a railroad switch station, or rail siding, from the downtown sector. The scope of the study is to provide the city with an understanding of how much work will be required to move the siding from downtown Ky...

Texas state sales tax revenue topped $2.29 billion in October, which was a slight 0.2 percent increase from the same month in 2015, according to a press release.  Glenn Hegar, Texas comptroller, said opposing trends in consumer and business spending resulted in slight growth in revenue.  “Continued ...

Debate raged during a public meeting at Dripping Springs Ranch Park Nov. 10 over the city of Dripping Springs’ proposed discharge permit application to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). The meeting, requested by Texas State Representative Jason Isaac, gave residents the chance to...

A line of cars waits in queue in the Lehman High parking lot as a Hays County Health Department volunteer hands out a pack of Skittles to a first responder. Today, the bag of candy represents Amoxicillin or another antibiotic. Tomorrow, it could be the real thing. Such was the drill performed Nov. 2...

A prominent Buda realtor indicted on intoxication manslaughter and murder charges could face trial early next year. Jason Tarr, who was indicted on a second-degree manslaughter and a first-degree murder charge in the death of Nancy Sterling-Dalton, could have his case go to trial in January, Hays Co...

A Hays County jury sentenced a Wimberley man to 12 years in prison after he was found guilty of intentionally setting a San Marcos home on fire in 2015. Ralph Colton Olle, 20, was convicted of first-degree arson by a Hays County Jury, said Hays County District Attorney Wes Mau. But Mau said Olle’s d...