Michael Mince Joshua Marquez UPDATE - 9:52 p.m.  The Hays CISD community is mourning the loss of two Lehman High students who passed away in separate incidents over the holiday break. According to a letter sent to Hays CISD parents, district officials were informed on Christmas Eve of the death of J...

Hays County officials continue to move forward with development of a Nature and Character Plan that will result in a Corridor Master Plan for FM 150 West in Hays County. The character plan is a document that defines how best to provide the future capacity needed for FM 150 West. According to the imp...

hen the final ballot is counted and the last precinct’s votes come in, some assume the job of an elections administrator is finished. Hays County Elections Administrator and Voter Registrar Joyce Cowan, who has held the position for the last 31 years, said that’s far from the truth.   When the calen...

Contractors for Hays County will begin removing debris from the Blanco River left behind by the 2015 Memorial Weekend flood, according to a press release. “A considerable amount of debris – ranging from building materials to vehicles – was deposited in the river,” Clint Garza, Director of Developmen...

Hays County area small business owners breathed a sigh of relief Nov. 22 when Texas Judge Amos Mezzant of the U.S. District Court of Eastern Texas filed an injunction against new overtime rules that were scheduled to go into effect Dec. 1. According to a press release, Mezzant filed the injunction b...

By Jeff Barton The Buda and Kyle areas are becoming more influential in county elections, an analysis of data from this year’s general election shows. Compared to eight years ago – the last time there was also an open election for president and a year when there was, like this year, a county-wide bo...

By Jeff Barton There’s a strong correlation between how you see the future of the country and where you live in a divided Hays County.      Along the Interstate 35 corridor and, especially, in the voting precincts east of the highway or around the college in San Marcos, most people voted for Hillary...

Buda residents will get a second shot at deciding the Place 1 city council seat as candidates Lee Urbanovsky and John Hatch square off in the Dec. 13 runoff election. The two will face off again after neither candidate generated more than 50 percent of the vote in the Nov. 8 general election. But ge...

The Kyle city council approved spending $270,000 on a preliminary engineering study to remove a railroad switch station, or rail siding, from the downtown sector. The scope of the study is to provide the city with an understanding of how much work will be required to move the siding from downtown Ky...

A line of cars waits in queue in the Lehman High parking lot as a Hays County Health Department volunteer hands out a pack of Skittles to a first responder. Today, the bag of candy represents Amoxicillin or another antibiotic. Tomorrow, it could be the real thing. Such was the drill performed Nov. 2...