Staff members from the Hays Free Press were exubilant this week as it was announced that the newspaper had been named the best in Texas for newspapers of similar size. The newspaper has been named best in class, winning sweepstakes, seven of the past 8 years, only missing 2011. The Hays Free Press w...

ongtime Kyle residents are mourning the loss of a dedicated public figure who over the course of 20-plus years served the community in a variety of capacities. Pete Krug,   who served as the mayor of Kyle on two occasions and was a longtime law enforcement official, passed away Dec. 6, according to ...

p on setting down a glass of whiskey and water, Kyle Mayor Todd Webster engaged Buda Mayor Todd Ruge in a conversation on weight loss strategies.    Cutting out beer and switching to spirits seems to do the trick, Webster said. Running a few miles a day also helps.  Such is the nature of conversatio...

yle resident Ana Flores recalls a time when living conditions within the Pete Dressen homes on Burleson Street were downright unsafe.  Flores, who has lived in the Section 8 housing community for roughly 17 years, said she and her mother were forced to move to another unit due to an abundance of roa...

Future Kyle buildings may go vertical as city officials explored a new commercial zoning district last month.  The district, called Mixed Use Zoning (MXD), is a proposed commercial zoning classification requiring a mix of commercial and residential uses within the same structure, according to city d...

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 ...

Improving and promoting tourism, along with helping residents around town, was the claim Kyle city leaders used when approving the purchase of $210,000 in gateway and directional signage earlier this month. By a 6-0 vote, the Kyle City Council approved the execution of a purchase order to FSG Signs ...

Kyle City Council members approved 6-0   an audit report on the Kyle Police Department during their Oct. 17 meeting. The audit was part of the Meet and Greet Confer agreement between Kyle and the Kyle Police Employees Association and was commissioned earlier last year. “When the city and association...

“Whoever thought that little stretch of blue dots would cause so much excitement?” James Earp, Kyle assistant city manager, posed this question when discussing one of five proposed amendments to Kyle’s Transportation Master Plan Oct. 4.  In reality, the little stretch of blue dots represented a mass...

The future of representation in Buda is an item city voters will decide on when they take up a busy ballot next month. On Nov. 7, voters will choose whether the Buda City Council should transition from an at-large format to possibly six single-member districts with an at-large mayor. The topic of tr...