HAYS COUNTY — The Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center (HCWC) accepted the second half and final payment of the $644,000 grant unanimously approved by the Hays County Commissioners Court in August 2022. This grant, funded through the Hays County allocation of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and the Loca...

BASTROP COUNTY — On Friday, March 29, Jerry Hernandez, 42, of Bastrop, was charged with criminally negligent homicide after the bus accident that took the lives of a Hays CISD student and a man from Bastrop. At approximately 2 p.m. on Friday, March 22, Hernandez was driving a cement truck on Highway...

KYLE — At approximately 1:30 p.m. on April 8, in the western part of Hays County, a total solar eclipse will appear, leaving Kyle residents to experience a 99.8% occlusion. According to the National Weather Service, the last time a total solar eclipse occurred in Central Texas was in 1878 and after ...

Following the bus accident that claimed the lives of an adult male and Tom Green Elementary School student on Friday, March 22, Hays CISD and the Tom Green principal have provided updates. According to principal Jennifer Hanna, there are three staff members and two students known to still be in the ...

HAYS COUNTY — The Texas Department of Transportation held a series of open-house meetings  Feb. 20-22 to gain community feedback on the IH-35 Austin-San Antonio Link Study from SH 45 to CR 382 (Cibolo Valley Drive). The goal of the open houses is to gain feedback on the draft purpose and need, the r...

KYLE — Between Tuesday, Dec. 26 and Wednesday, Feb. 14, the Kyle Police Department, Buda Police Department and the Hays County Sheriff’s Office arrested and charged five individuals in connection to robberies at various convenience stores in the area. The first incident occurred at 11:38 p.m. on Tue...

HAYS COUNTY —  Hays County has chosen its sheriff candidates for the upcoming election in November. This comes after current Hays County Sheriff, Gary Cutler, announced his retirement in February 2023. Nearly 33,122 or 18.85% of registered Hays County voters, headed to the polls during the March 5 p...

HAYS COUNTY — Candidates from across the county are vying for numerous positions, including county sheriff, tax assessor-collector, commissioner, constable and justice of the peace. These are the numbers as of 10:13 p.m, with 29 of 41 polling locations reporting: Hays County Sheriff Democrat Alex Vi...

SAN MARCOS — A Hays County jury found Maximillian Decker-Dilieto, 26, guilty of two counts of sexual assault on Thursday, Feb. 15. Decker-Dilieto was accused of sexually assaulting a woman he was romantically involved with — the two convictions resulted from the same episode of assault. The jury hea...

KYLE — Robert Rene Rangel Jr., 34, of Kyle was sentenced by Judge Wright-Reneau of the 207th District Court on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. He was convicted by a jury in November of assault family violence – impeding (strangulation) repeat offender and assault family violence repeat offender. The jury f...