Lehman High freshman Hayden Lugo is no stranger to the competitive world of raising swine. Lugo, who has been competing since he was in the third grade, raises Duroc, a red haired swine that has won him the Hays County Youth Livestock Show Market Swine championship in 2016 and 2017. This year, Lugo ...

After 33 years in coaching, including five spent at Hays High, Neal LaHue Friday announced plans to hang up his whistle. In a letter to Hays High principal David Pierce, LaHue, who is the current Hays High head football coach and athletic coordinator, intends to retire from public education and coac...

Starting Friday, Dripping Springs-area residents won't have to drive into Austin to get their film fix. Sky Cinema, a new 14-screen movie theater, will hold a soft-opening from Jan. 26 to Feb. 1. The theater is the anchor for Belterra Village, a 93-acre mixed-use development that holds roughly 200,0...

A 5-1 recommendation to approve a controversial Driftwood wedding venue was handed down by the Dripping Springs Planning and Zoning Commission Tuesday, but not without protest. More than 100 people packed into Dripping Springs City Hall for a public hearing on the site development permit, with many ...

Hays County Judge David Glickler, County Court-at-Law No. 2, will begin assisting citizens in settling probate matters at the Justice of the Peace courtrooms in Kyle   and Wimberley in February. Probate matters are usually heard by the two County Court-at-Law judges at the Hays County Government Cen...

A final recommendation on what Dripping Springs ISD could place into a potential May bond package will wait another week. The DSISD bond steering committee requested more time to consider its final recommendation to the board of trustees. The committee aims to present its final recommendation at a s...

A recent major collision at the corner of Burleson Street and the southbound frontage road of Interstate 35 in Kyle is leading local and state officials to improve safety in the area. The initiative, which involves the city of Kyle and the Texas Department of Transportation, comes after a Jan. 13 wr...

Facing a tight deadline, Buda city officials Jan. 18 approved the inclusion of four transportation projects in its application for potential federal funding. Buda City Engineer John Nett said that the original deadline for the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization’s (CAMPO) project call ap...

Personal attacks and arguments hit the dais Jan. 16 as Kyle city leaders sparred on who was fit to serve as the city’s representative on a local area water board. But the display, which encompassed roughly a half-hour, may have showcased a deepening, and vitriolic, divide between Mayor Travis Mitche...

Starting Jan. 25, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) begins its official 90-day technical appeal process for residents, municipalities and businesses to submit comments and appeals regarding preliminary floodplain maps. Appeals and comments from residents will be accepted by FEMA until A...