By Samantha Smith Continued overcrowding at the Hays County Jail is forcing county officials to keep with the trend of outsourcing prisoners to another facility to stem the flow.  But the county is now accruing additional costs at taxpayers’ expense as they’re having to travel further to house the e...

By Samantha Smith For roughly two hours Tuesday, the Hays County Commissioners Court debated the need to construct a multi-port monitoring well to study groundwater within the Trinity and Edwards aquifers.  By a 4-1 vote, commissioners entered into an interlocal agreement with the Barton Springs Edw...

Staff report   Hays County Commissioners last month took their initial look at its preliminary list of road projects that could make their way into a proposed November bond.  A total of 20 projects made their way onto the list, which has an estimated cost of roughly $352 million.  According to a Hay...

By Samantha Smith As tension between police and the public dominate the current social climate, public perceptions of local police departments have been mostly positive in Hays County.   Kyle Police Chief Jeff Barnett said that while Kyle police officers are aware of the events across the country, t...

By Bailey Buckingham An organization shepherding the reforestation effort along the Blanco River following devastating floods in 2015 was given permission by Hays County Commissioners earlier this month to continue its work.  With one commissioner absent, Hays County Commissioners voted unanimously ...

  2:10 p.m. UPDATE  CORRECTION: Police say Sejdalija Smajic died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A final autopsy report is pending.    by Moses Leos III  A man who barricaded himself in his Garlic Creek home Wednesday was found dead by authorities, this after officials discovered his wife had b...

By Moses Leos III A total of 38 projects completed over an eight-year span highlighted a presentation given to the Hays County Commissioners Court as a progress report on its 2008 Road Bond. Voters authorized the bond, which was passed by voters by a 2-to-1 margin, for roughly $207 million for the P...

By Moses Leos III   Texas ranks just below average in total energy cost for households, with the average home spending $289 on electricity, natural gas and gasoline costs, this according to a study from WalletHub.com. According to WalletHub, energy costs take up between 5 and 22 percent of families’...

By Moses Leos III Two people were arrested July 6 after they were suspected of delivering a controlled substance following the execution of a search warrant by the Hays County Narcotics Task Force.   Authorities arrested Norman Lee McKnight, 48, and Sommer Cheynne McKnight, 17, both of Buda. Both we...

Staff Report   Hays County will be well represented at the Democratic and Republican national conventions later this month. The Republican Convention is being held July 18-21 in Cleveland, OH, while the Democratic Convention follows one week later in Philadelphia July 25-28. Representing the Republi...