By Kim Hilsenbeck A proposed interlocal agreement between the city of Kyle, Hays County and Mountain City would broker a deal between the three entities, but it has some area residents up in arms. Mountain City residents who attended their tiny town’s city council meeting Monday evening told the cou...

By Ashley Sava   Expansion of the boundaries of the Barton Springs-Edwards Aquifer Conservation District to cover a section of unprotected groundwater in Hays County is one step closer to becoming law, according to a statement from Texas State Representative Jason Isaac (R-Dripping Springs, District...

By Moses Leos III An interlocal agreement that requires a swap of extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) between Kyle and Mountain City could vastly change the landscape of the Hays County water wars. On Tuesday, Kyle City Council voted 7-0 to move forward with negotiations and execution of an agreemen...

By Ashley Sava Hays County residents started seeing their annual notice of home appraisals in the mail this week. The Hays Central Appraisal District started sending out the notices — more than 76,000 of them — on May 1. And some homeowners aren’t happy about what they read in those letters. Yvonne ...

  Staff Report Union Pacific Railroad Police are investigating the death of a man who was struck by a train in San Marcos Friday. According to a City of San Marcos press release, the incident happened on the railroad tracks near Wonder World Drive at around 3:30 p.m. Police have not released the ide...

By Moses Leos III   Planning for future growth – and avoiding some of the pitfalls Austin faced over the past two decades – were just two reasons for the recent FM 150 West Character Plan project meeting. Nearly 200 Hays County residents came in and out of Thurman’s Mansion in Driftwood Wednesday ev...

    By ANDY SEVILLA A Hays County District Judge handed down a 60-year sentence Thursday to a Kyle man convicted in the 1986 aggravated kidnapping of a nine-year-old girl. Reynaldo Zamora, 61, was handed down the sentence after a brief punishment hearing Thursday. Judge Bruce Boyer of the 22nd Judic...

By Andy Sevilla In a nod of support to western Hays County residents concerned over unregulated commercial pumping of the Trinity Aquifer, Buda Council members unanimously approved a resolution supporting groundwater protection.  Buda’s support, however, comes with a few self-serving injunctions. Th...

By Andy Sevilla A bill that could extend groundwater protections beyond groundwater management districts is making its way through the legislature. State Representative Jason Isaac on Feb. 6 filed House Bill 1191, which would create a buffer zone of five miles beyond the boundaries of a priority gro...

By Andy Sevilla More than six miles of I-35 frontage road, from Kyle to San Marcos, is slated for improvement after the state awarded funds for the project in December. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is moving ahead with an overlay project on a portion of the southbound frontage road...