Available at PEC offices and partnering locations KYLE, Texas — Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) wants to make it easy for its members and communities to help save monarch butterflies, which is why it is offering complimentary packets of pollinator seed mix at any PEC office and partnering loca...

Staff Reports No, your Social Security number has not been suspended. As incredible as that idea even sounds, people across Texas and the nation have been told that in recent months, along with equally suspicious statements and request. It’s all part of what the Social Security Administration (SSA) ...

By Bud Wymore The Hays Free Press offers candidates one opportunity each election to address its readers. Rather than publishing a press release, I made the decision to speak directly to you about why I’m running. My name is Bud Wymore and I am a candidate in the Republican Primary to represent our ...

The Peace Corps will host an application drive at Texas State University on March 3. Peace Corps recruiters will be in the LBJ Student Center Ballroom noon-4 p.m. Students interested in applying to serve after graduation will have an opportunity to ask questions about service, learn which programs b...

Submitted Report Nearly half of Texas teens killed in vehicle crashes in 2018 were not wearing a seat belt. Vehicle crashes are the leading cause of deaths among teenagers, but one simple click could help change that. That’s why TxDOT’s “Teen Click It or Ticket” campaign urges teens to click it each...

Additional charges have been filed against two people charged with firing at a Hays County Sheriff’s Office vehicle during a high-speed chase from Dripping Springs to near Johnson City earlier this month. Nathaniel Castro, 23, of El Paso and Klarissa Soto, 19, of Manchaca were taken into custody Feb...

Kinder Morgan expressed pleasure, but opponents of the company’s planned 430-mile Permian Highway Pipeline (PHP) disagreed with a judge’s opinion that the project can proceed. Travis County District Judge Robert Pitman ruled Feb. 14 against a temporary restraining order sought by the T.R.E.A.D. (Tex...

Hwy. 21 near Uhland remained closed as of late morning in the wake of a fatal collision involving a dumptruck. More details was they become available. Anita Miller photo

Hwy. 21 near Uhland remained closed as of late morning in the wake of a fatal collision involving a dumptruck. More details was they become available. Anita Miller photo

The driver of a vehicle from which shots were fired at a Hays County deputy during a weekend high-speed chase from Dripping Springs to near Johnson City is being held in Hays County Jail on bonds totaling $2 million; while the alleged shooter’s bonds total $1.5 million. Nathaniel Castro, 22, and Kla...