By Sahar Chmais Phase I of Cotton Gin Road construction is complete and Phase II is slated to begin on or about May 10. This phase has been rescheduled from its original start date of April 19. Hays County Transportation Department will begin the second phase by paving the north side of the roadway ...

A friend of a family whose home was damaged in a fire early Sept. 18 that left one person in critical condition is seeking help from the community. The fire broke out on Goforth Road before dawn. Kyle Fire Chief Kyle Taylor said firefighters were notified at 5:03 a.m. and arrived on the scene approx...

An estimated $1.5 million fix for Goforth Road in east Kyle might be forthcoming, but only if proposed or future developments in the area help to partially foot the bill. That’s the path Kyle city leaders plan to take after they greenlit an agreement with developers of Castetta Ranch, a new subdivis...

Officials expect to complete rehabilitation of a “high-hazard” dam in east Kyle, which has closed a portion of Goforth Road for roughly two years, in April or May. The upgrade, which was budgeted for $7.95 million, is part of the Plum Creek Conservation District’s (PCCD) effort to meet state safety ...

New developments, along with the start of several key Capital Improvement Projects (CIPs), are on the docket for Buda officials as they prepare for a busy 2018. Buda Assistant City Manager Micah Grau said Buda experienced commercial growth in 2017 that should come to fruition in 2018. Additionally, ...

ith the school district’s elimination of certain bus routes, the possibility of an influx of children on foot heading to school is driving Kyle to add safeguards onto streets near campuses impacted by the cuts. For a year now, Kyle city officials and Hays Consolidated Independent School District (CI...

January 2018 is the anticipated construction start date on Lehman Road, which is one of the final two projects remaining in the city’s $30-plus million road bond initiative. Leon Barba, Kyle city engineer, said the city expects to start advertising bids for the Lehman Road project in December, with ...

Confusion among newcomers, visitors and emergency response personnel in the Kyle area regarding Goforth Road has prompted the city to change the name. The road will be named Philomena and Bunton Creek, depending on the location. At a public meeting Thursday, Kyle city planner William Atkinson descri...

The race to complete Goforth and Bunton Creek roads in east Kyle prior to the start of the 2017 Hays CISD school year is on for the city of Kyle and its construction crews. But as both 2014 bond projects are winding down, Kyle will soon begin the process of reconstructing the much-maligned Lehman Ro...

The possibility of a charter school coming to Kyle could be a reality after officials with IDEA public schools, a south Texas based charter school system, unveiled plans to build a 110,000 square-foot, $20 million campus. Larkin Tackett, vice president of community for IDEA public schools in Austin,...