Staff Report Below is a statement from the Texas Department of Public Safety. It is with great sadness the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) announces the death of a Highway Patrol Trooper following a shooting incident in Limestone County. Trooper Chad Walker, 38, was stopping to assist a driv...

Cite and Divert should be implemented Watching the George Floyd trial is heartbreaking. In San Marcos, a group of advocates called Mano Amigo and a supportive city council, passed a new ordinance that could have prevented all this pain and suffering. It is called Cite and Release. It is such a simpl...

KYLE – Some Kyle businesses along Veterans Drive may be eligible for reimbursement of renaming expenses. On March 16, Kyle City Council gave direction to city staff to allow businesses along the stretch of Veterans Drive to apply for compensation using the $5,346 of funds previously approved for add...

Capital Highlights by Gary Borders The state’s unemployment rate dropped to 6.8% in January, down a tick from December’s 6.9% rate but double the record low of 3.4% in May 2019. It is unclear what effect the mid-February winter storm had on employment, when power outages swept the state and many roa...

By Sahar Chmais  BUDA – Buda is helping residents get back on track from the destruction left behind by winter storm Uri. The city is offering multiple recovery assistance programs.  During the Tuesday Buda City Council meeting, council members passed several recovery assistance programs. The city h...

By Sahar Chmais Ghost Brand came up with a technology that would protect against COVID-19 before the virus existed – precisely eight years before. It is not a pill, vaccine or a machine. This technology is treated cloth that decontaminates materials from COVID-19 and microbes. Viruses were the last ...

By Sahar Chmais Hays County businesses received millions of dollars in funds from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), even though many businesses did not participate in it or found difficulty navigating the system. Now that PPP loans will be making a reappearance to aid more businesses through th...

Judge William Walter “Bud” Burnet, died Saturday, Dec. 27 peacefully in his sleep at his ranch in Duran, New Mexico, after a several year battle with Parkinson’s Disease. Burnett, 82, was a four-term Hays County Judge and although his first loves were ranching cattle and nurturing his family, his ca...

Helen Schmidt was born in Maxwell, Texas (on a blackland farm between Uhland and Maxwell) on June 6, 1925. Her parents were John August and Henrietta Wink Siemering. She grew up during the depression days of this country that led into World War II. At home, they baked bread every day, separated the ...

  Staff report DRIPPING SPRING — In another illustration of the rapid growth occurring in western Hays County, Dripping Springs ISD's fifth elementary school is under construction on Darden Hill Road (near the intersection of Sawyer Ranch Road). The school will have the capacity for 850 students and...