Crews responded to a wildfire in the 2700 block of Post Road near Five Mile Dam in the early evening hours of Monday, July 31. The fire began at 5:14 p.m. with a vehicular accident, according to the Hays County Office of Emergency Management. The fire burned approximately three acres and was contain...

By Ashley Kontnier People of all backgrounds, sizes and abilities flooded downtown Kyle Saturday for the inaugural Beat the Heat 5K. The Kyle Professional Firefighters Association (Local 4567) and the Kyle Fire Department hosted their first ever 5K this past weekend, with the help of local nonprofit...

Authorities have identified a Lockhart teen as the victim in an accidental drowning at Five Mile Dam Wednesday. Wyatt James Kunze, 15, of Lockhart, was named as the victim in the incident. Hays County Sheriff Gary Cutler said the drowning was accidental and authorities suspect no foul play. Around 2...

Recycled Christmas trees acquired by Hays County will be used as mulch for county parks such as Jacob’s Well in Wimberley and the Five Mile Dam in San Marcos. Through a six-day recycling effort, which went from Jan. 8-13, Hays County citizens donated a total of 49 trees to locations in Wimberley and...

  Austin resident Donovan Epps carries two buckets of tree seedlings that were planted during TreeFolks’ Blanco River Resforestation Project at Five Mile Dam on Feb. 5, 2016. On Friday, TreeFolks planted 1,700 trees at File Mile Dam as part of their pilot project to reforest the Blanco River followi...

By Cyndy Slovak-Barton Getting from the Kyle end of Old Stagecoach Road to the San Marcos side will not get any easier any time soon. The bridge crossing the Blanco River below Five Mile Dam was washed out during the Memorial Day flood.  With bridge and road repairs in the Wimberley and San Marcos a...

By Moses Leos III Blanco Vista residents Drew and Kathy Rich knew it was raining “a lot” in Hays County when they retired for the evening Saturday.   They kept up with newscasts documenting the heavy rainfall in the area.   But several hours later, they were among the many residents who evacuated th...