The Healthy Kids Running Series wrapped up its five-week spring season at Buda City Park on Sunday, May 12. Following the races, the overall series winners were announced.

Editor's note: This article has been edited as of 5:45 p.m. on May 20, 2024 to correct Mayor Lee Urbanovsky's quote that the plan *does* meet the demand up to 2043. BUDA — At its regular meeting on Tuesday, May 7, Buda City Council unanimously approved to adopt the City of Buda Water Master Plan. In...

BUDA — The following email was sent to Elm Grove Elementary School parents on Tuesday, May 14. Dear Elm Grove Elementary Family, I’m emailing on behalf of Principal Kathy Faulks and Assistant Principal Patty Manco to let you know about an investigation the campus conducted this afternoon. It was rep...

On March 5, 2024, former Buda Chamber of Commerce Board president Mina Colin Strother pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering in the United States District Court Southern District of Texas. According to the plea agreement signed by Strother, he agreed to cooperate with the United Sta...

The Texas Education Agency announced in December 2023 that the constructed response questions in the 2024 STAAR tests will be graded by a hybrid model of human scorers and an automated scoring engine (ASE). "The Texas hybrid scoring model uses an automated scoring engine to augment the work of human...

BUDA — The city of Buda has been working to make the community more age-friendly for its older population. In 2015, the Buda City Council appointed the Task Force on Aging (TFOA) in recognition of the growing population of older adults in the community. During that time, the task force was charged w...

BUDA — Geoff Seibel and incumbent Courtney Runkle won the seats for Hays CISD Board of Trustees At-Large and District 3 positions, respectively, during the May 4 election, according to unofficial polling results. Vying for the at-large position was Katy Armstrong, with 41.90% of the votes (908), Geo...

BUDA — A substitute teacher has been suspended from working in Hays CISD following an alleged puppet show, which required students to commit murder. According to a release, the district and Johnson High School placed the substitute on suspension and removed the teacher from campus on April 19, follo...

Fans cheer as wiener dogs, or dachshunds, race with speed across the field. Dogs who placed first and second moved on to other races to find out who was the fastest. The final winner of the day was the 2023 reigning champion, Lorelei. Second place went to Bean and third place went to Jimmy Dean.

BUDA — At the April 16 meeting, Buda City Council tabled a proposed development agreement for a 98.96-acre residential development, known as The Reserve. This comes after the council postponed the project at an earlier meeting on April 2. Located between Cole Springs Road and Old Black Colony Road, ...