When a non-English speaker calls 911, Kyle Police have avenues available to be able to understand their problem most of the time. But that option doesn’t exist for officers in the field who may encounter someone with whom they cannot communicate. Jeff Barnett, chief of police in Kyle, posed a potent...

Just over six months after a Kyle family’s pet dog was killed by three pit bulls that broke into their backyard, the Kyle City Council toughened its animal control ordinance. The measure, which passed its second reading on a unanimous vote, would require dogs which have been caught running loose mor...

Michael Tobias handily won a seat on the Kyle City Council Saturday in an election that was nonetheless plagued by abysmally low voter turnout. The election was to fill the unexpired term of District 6 council member Daphne Tenorio, who resigned last month in order to pursue the Democratic nominatio...

More than two years after the Kyle City Council passed an ordinance designed in part to lower parking fines, residents began getting refunds for overcharges. Council member Rick Koch, who is also now mayor pro tem, began trying to get the fines lowered while he was still a private citizen. He finish...

The Kyle City Council on Tuesday voted to challenge a natural gas rate increase proposed by the Texas Gas Service Company (TGS) that was scheduled to take effect Feb. 6. TGS has filed an intent to change the rate with the Railroad Commission of Texas “and in all municipalities exercising original ju...

Staff Reports An unexpired Kyle City Council seat for District 6, that was held by council member Daphne Tenorio, is expected to be filled by a special election Jan. 25. The seat remains open after Tenorio resigned in order to run for the office of Hays County Tax Assessor-Collector. Two candidates,...

The closing time for bars in Kyle at 2 a.m. could get a review, or at the very least a covert or overt review from the TABC could be in the works. The Kyle City Council, at its Dec. 3 meeting, voted to direct Police Chief Jeff Barnett to ask the Texas Alcoholic Beverages Commission (TABC) to do an i...

The Kyle City Council made several appointments and reappointments at its Nov. 19 meeting. Gracie Rocha was reappointed to the Kyle Public Library Advisory Board and Priscilla Carruthers was appointed as a new board member. Animal Control Officer Briana Brecher was named to the San Marcos Regional A...

The Kyle City Council had a special visitor at its Nov. 5 meeting. Ash Crane, 11, has a congenital heart condition and has undergone more than 20 procedures in his short life that led to him being approached by the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Instead of a trip to Disneyworld or a major sporting event, A...

The woman at the podium listed off a dozen or so species of songbirds that delight her young daughters by coming to their backyard feeder – tufted titmice, chickadees, wrens, finches and buntings among them. “I’m speaking on behalf of the birds that will lose their homes on the land behind our house...