Activists and community members July 12 banded together at the Hays County Courthouse to call for an end to inhumane conditions reported at several immigration detention facilities along the border. Those who joined in on the vigil also prayed, protested and condemned controversial efforts by the U....

A second round of litigation against a Houston-based firm that's seeking to build a 42-inch, 430-mile underground natural gas pipeline could be forthcoming. On Tuesday, Hays County Commissioners voted 4-0 to file a notice of intent to sue Kinder Morgan, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. ...

Federal authorities are joining a multi-party investigation that originated in Hays County of a man suspected of producing, distributing and possessing child pornography. While FBI officials have issued a 52-count indictment against Luann Fabric Campos Leao Hida, 25, of Lakeway, authorities fear the...

Advances in technology allowing healthcare providers to monitor patents remotely in the name of preventive care could support indigent Hays County residents in the future. MRG Medical showed Hays County Commissioners in a June 25 workshop a watch that can monitor a patient’s vital signs, as well as ...

Two pending groundwater permits in Hays County, if approved, could severely damage the Trinity Aquifer, according to multiple hydrogeologists in the area.  Those permits, filed by Needmore Water, LLC and Electro Purification, LLC, are vying to pump more than 1.2 billion gallons of water a year, comb...

An investigation into a June 14 hit-and-run at an area gas station parking lot led police to arrest a Kyle man Wednesday. Favio Alberto Sanchez-Perez, 34, of Kyle, was booked into the Hays County Jail June 26 on a charge of accident involving injury, a state-jail felony. An Immigrations and Customs ...

District makes the grade on prelim test results Progress on preliminary state standardized test scores offer hope for Hays CISD officials that the district won’t have an “Improvement Required” campus for the first time in several years. On June 24, Hays CISD leaders unveiled preliminary State of Tex...

After several weeks of working to repair the RM 150 double crossings over Onion Creek, Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) officials Friday said they have fixed the damage and reopened the road to traffic. Reopening the road comes more than a month after TxDOT officials closed the crossing du...

Texas towns can now use hotel occupancy tax (HOT) dollars to reduce light pollution and preserve the dark skies above, all thanks to a Driftwood-area legislator. Earlier this month, House Bill 4158, authored by State Rep. Erin Zwiener (D-Driftwood), became law after it passed through Texas Gov. Greg...

Hays CISD teacher pay raises are on the horizon, but district leaders are waiting to see just how much they’ll bump them up. That was the discussion Monday as Hays CISD’s board of trustees finalized its $235 million budget for the 2019-20 school year by a unanimous 7-0 vote. District leaders finaliz...