Stray and lost animals aren’t a problem unique to any city or region, yet it’s one many municipalities struggle to deal with. Late last year the city of Buda decided on a course of action to help displaced animals to be reunited with their owners. On Jan. 16, the Buda Police Department rolled out an...

Relief for commuters waiting for the end of work on Burleson Street is but a few months away. According to Leon Barba, engineer for the city of Kyle, the project is still on track to be completed in June. As of Jan. 21, Barba reported the project is an estimated 73 percent complete with the section ...

Book signing at literary center Author and poet Adrian Matejka (above) will hold a reading and book signing 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7 at the Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center in Kyle. The event is free and open to the public. Matejka is the author of The Devil’s Garden and Mixology . His third co...

Residents in the Hays CISD interested in serving on the Board of Trustees have until 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14 to file their candidacy paperwork. Elections for a single-member trustee from District 1, single-member trustee from District 2 and trustee-at-large will be filled. There are no incumbents run...

It was a long time in the making, but the new deal between the city of Kyle and Texas Disposal Systems (TDS) is a “win” for both, a city official says. The Kyle City Council approved the new, 15-year contract on Jan. 21 and it contains good news for both residences and businesses, said Kyle’s Chief ...

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...

By Anita Miller A lawsuit alleging Kinder Morgan has violated the Endangered Species Act with its approach to building a natural gas pipeline through the heart of the Texas Hill Country just got another plaintiff. The Hays County Commissioners Court voted unanimously on Tuesday to join the suit, whi...

Hays CISD Trustee Teresa Tobias announced Wednesday that she will not seek re-election for a third term as the representative on the Hays CISD Board of Trustees for single-member-district 1. Teresa Tobias “After considering it thoroughly, I have decided to step back from the Board to allow me more t...

Kyle Police Department are reporting that an incident Saturday afternoon was peacefully resolved and an individual is in police custody. According to KPD Chief Jeff Barnett, at about 2:20 p.m., police responded to a burglary in progress in the 700 block of Fairway in the Plum Creek neighborhood. The...

On Tuesday, Jan. 28, the Hays County Commissioners will consider joining as a plaintiff in a lawsuit against U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and Kinder Morgan for violation of the Endangered Species Act.   “Hays County takes this matter seriously and intends to address it...