By Anita Miller The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) has some facts and figures for those who expect to be seeking a new job in 2020. The TWC has released a list of top careers broken down by educational level and expected earnings detailed for the nine-county Rural Capital Area. The region’s five f...

Submitted Report AUSTIN – The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has leased a “no fee” public access area on the Guadalupe River to help anglers target rainbow trout during the peak of the cool-weather stocking and fishing season. Camp Huaco Springs, located between San Antonio and Austin, has near...

Kudos to the Kyle Parks and Recreation Department for putting together a spectacular light display in downtown Kyle. Photos don’t do it justice, so be sure to drive by the city square this holiday season to check it out. Employees include, front row, left to right: Amado Gomez, Luke Guerrero, Claudi...

With the exception of Mountain City, all of Hays County’s taxing municipalities are ending the year on a positive note when it comes to the percentage of sales taxes allocated from the office of the State Comptroller. The year’s final allocations were delivered this week, revealing how much ground w...

No matter their political party, Hays County voters will be facing several choice in the Democratic and Republican primary elections May 3. Hays County Sheriff There’s a race in both parties for sheriff, where incumbent Republican Gary Cutler will face challenger David Graham of Dripping Springs. On...

Submitted Report Andrew Martinez, 24, of Kyle, was convicted of murder this week for shooting Jacob Lambert in 2014. Evidence at the trial, which began Dec. 2, showed that Andrew Martinez, an alleged small-time marijuana dealer, was the passenger in a car conducting drug deals in the Kyle area on Se...

Former Austin police officer VonTrey Clark pled guilty this week to the killing in 2015 of his pregnant girlfriend, former Kyle Police Department victims services coordinator Samantha Dean. Dean was seven to eight months pregnant at the time of the murder. Clark’s plea agreement was a reversal of hi...

Staff Reports Kyle resident Andrew Martinez, 24, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 45 years in prison by a Hays County jury last week. Andrew Martinez Martinez fatally shot Jacob Lambert, 19 in the Waterleaf subdivision on Sept. 14, 2014, when a drug deal went wrong. District Attorney Wes Mau...

The “happiest place” in the hospital is how Neal Kelley, COO of Ascension Seton Hays, described the brand-new maternity unit officially dedicated last Friday. “I come here when I want to get happy,” Kelley said with a sweep of his hand to indicate the new hallway with the purple walls and doors. Abo...

There was a new element to the morning commute near Hays High School recently — a mom and a few of her supporters holding up signs decrying bullying. A few passing motorists honked their horns in support but the mother, whose name we will not use, wants something larger — strong action by the Hays C...