A $3.54 increase in the average monthly wastewater bill could be on the horizon for Kyle utility customers as city leaders look to fund future infrastructure improvements next fiscal year.     Despite a rise in wastewater rates, Kyle’s proposed $85 million budget is not expected to alter the current...

Appropriately dressed as the “Boy Who Lived,” Ruth Kearly (center) and Fischer Chung (right) toss ping pong balls during a game of table-top quidditch at the Buda Public Library’s downtown location. Buda and Kyle residents Tuesday celebrated the fictional birthday of Harry Potter, the protagonist in...

Few details are known about the death of a Buda man that was ruled a homicide earlier this week. An investigation is ongoing into the death of Brandon Lamont Fotnette, 36, of Buda, who was found in a residence in the 200 block of Brandon’s Way near Buda. According to a press release, law enforcement...

Four of the five people who had been reported missing following the July 20 San Marcos apartment fire have now been identified as victims, according to a city of San Marcos press release. As authorities continue to comb through the rubble, an investigation involving multiple state and federal entiti...

UPDATE – 8:00 a.m. July 28  Officials have ruled the death of a man found in a Buda area home July 26 as a homicide, according to a Hays County Sheriff's Office press release. The victim has been identified as Brandon Lamont Fotnette, 36, of Buda, according to the release. His death was ruled a homi...

Four of the five victims recovered from the scene of the July 20 apartment fire in San Marcos have now been identified, according to a city of San Marcos press release. Victims who have been identified are Haley Michele Frizzell, 19, of San Angelo, James Miranda, 23, of Mount Pleasant, David Ortiz, ...

By Julian Aguilar Texas Tribune More than three dozen environmental, faith-based and immigrant rights groups are urging the federal government to extend the public-comment period for construction of the border wall, arguing that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security isn’t acting in good faith. Th...

Dripping Springs ISD’s annual enrollment verification process for all students begins July 28. Parents will receive a reminder email with log-in information a few days before the enrollment verification window opens. Family Access logins are used to begin this process; those who don’t have a login o...

Dripping Springs High German teacher Jillian Bessemer accompanied eight of her students to Dortmund, Germany, for three weeks in June and July to kick off the school’s first GAPP (German American Partnership Program) exchange. DSHS will host 13 students from the Phoenix Gymnasium School, which is lo...

O ur long regional nightmare is now over.  And no, I’m not talking about iHop’s shameless marketing “iHob” gimmick. We all knew it was a trick and sure enough it was.  Instead, basketball fans were finally given closure to the drama surrounding former San Antonio Spurs Kawhi Leonard and the “will he...