Dripping Springs High School senior John Mihaly has been selected as an Academic All-American by the National Speech and Debate Association. The Academic All-American award recognizes high school students who have earned the degree of Superior Distinction in debate (750 points); completed at least f...

Dripping Springs ISD announced 2019-20 Campus Teachers of the Year on April 15. They are: Annette Hambright (Sycamore Springs Elementary, Special Education), Dave Hammond (Dripping Springs Middle School, special education), Jordyn LaMirand (Sycamore Springs Middle School, Special Education), Michael...

Testing for the COVID-19 virus – what tests should be used and who should get them – returned to the forefront of discussion at Tuesday’s meeting of the Hays County Commissioners Court. But commissioners and County Judge Ruben Becerra also widened the discussion to include how and when the county’s ...

When it comes to funding streets, hospitals, roads and a host of other things Hays County is going to need in the next 10 years, residents have some explaining to do. And they’re not alone. Three weeks have passed since the U.S. Census preferred to receive completed forms for the 2020 Constitutional...

More salvos were fired last week in the ongoing fight between Hill Country landowners, environmentalists and energy giant Kinder Morgan. The Wimberley Valley Watershed Association (WVWA) and the Trinity Edwards Springs Protection Association (TESPA) have jointly threatened to sue Kinder Morgan after...

Eight hundred and eighty five Hays County residents have now been tested for the COVID-19 virus and of that, 135 have been positive. Eight more confirmed cases were added to the April 20 4 p.m. report. Test results were pending in 18 cases and there have been 732 negative tests. One person has died ...

Two new positive tests for COVID-19 were announced Sunday, bringing the total number of lab-confirmed cases to 127. Fifty seven people have recovered and 69 cases are active. Results in 19 cases are pending and there have been 707 negatives. One fatality has been recorded, a woman in her 80s in Buda...

One San Marcos Police Officer was killed and two wounded on Saturday, April 18 while responding to a domestic disturbance call on Hunter Road in San Marcos. Police Chief Bob Klett said in a Sunday morning press conference that Officer Justin R Putnam, a five-year veteran of the force, was killed by ...

Eight hundred and twenty four Hays County residents had been tested for the COVID-19 virus as of 4 p.m. on Friday, April 17. Results include 121 positives and 680 negatives. Results in 23 cases are pending. There has been one fatality and a dozen hospitalizations. Four people remain hospitalized at ...

Eight new cases of COVID-19 were added to the county’s toll on Thursday and five more people have recovered, the latest numbers indicate. The new cases boost Hays County’s total confirmed cases to 117, 68 of which are active. Test results are pending in 19 cases and 754 people have tested negative. ...