Staff Report As construction of the Kinder Morgan Permian Highway Pipeline progresses across the Texas Hill Country, the Hays Trinity Groundwater District is urging the owners of water wells to register them. Construction on the 430-mile, 42-inch natural gas pipeline is currently halted near Chimney...

What Mountain City lacks in population it is making up for in participation — regarding Census 2020 at least. The tiny municipality (population 780 in 2018) leads Hays County in terms of participation in the Constitutionally-mandated count of everyone living in the U.S. According to the most recent ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has once again infringed on a tradition important to the community. Labor Day Weekend in the city of Kyle will not be the same this year. Kyle City Council decided to cancel the annual Pie in the Sky event for 2020. Due to concerns over the coronavirus, council members believe ...

Hays Free Press Staff The Hays CISD terminated a longtime employee last week within hours after allegations of improper conduct surfaced on Facebook. The employment of Communications Specialist David Bowe was terminated on July 9 for “engaging in conduct that falls short of district expectations” an...

The city of Kyle is partnering with Uber Technologies to provide residents with more flexible transportation by early August. Residents will request rides using the Uber mobile app. Kyle officials will distribute a voucher link to users through the app. Users will be eligible to start subsidized rid...

When 16-year-old Johnson High student Emily Polk finally mustered up the courage to speak up about being sexually assaulted by her teammate, she found nobody from the school that would listen. Months after the incident, her mother found out and told officials at the school, but she too faced indiffe...

Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the state to slow down the reopening process for bars and other venues as coronavirus-related infections, hospitalizations and deaths continued to increase in Texas last week. “As I said from the start, if the positivity rate rose above 10%, the State of Texas would take fur...

Signs outside a Monday press conference in Wimberley (above) can be seen all along the route of the Permian Highway Pipeline (PHP). The laughter of children playing in and along Cypress Creek provided a backdrop as a new federal lawsuit against Kinder Morgan’s Permian Highway Pipeline (PHP) was anno...

Spooner Property, shown in yellow outline, sits just north of Quail Ridge in Kyle. By Megan Wehring The Kyle Planning and Zoning Commission denied zoning for a new single family residential subdivision at its June 9 meeting. The property is located off E. Post Road, north of the Quail Ridge Subdivis...