By Megan Wehring KYLE — Landowners for about 50 years have been making plans to sell their property for quite some time until they went before the Kyle City Council on Oct. 20 and no action was made. Kyle residents Dennis Lake and Deborah Lake requested for an addition of land to the North Hays Coun...

The Hays Free Press posed the following questions to Kyle City Council candidates. Here are their responses. Yvonne Flores-Cale Kyle City Council, Pl. 2 Q. What did you learn from the Fajita Drive flap?  A. I learned the citizens of Kyle are tired of not being heard or included in decisions made by ...

By Megan Wehring KYLE – Renaming Rebel Drive might be one step closer as the Kyle City Council approved an ordinance to remove the name during the second reading on Sept. 1. With a 6-1 vote, with Mayor Travis Mitchell voting against, a resolution was also approved to create an ad hoc committee that ...

By Megan Wehring Demonstrations continue to grow as the American public protest against police brutality. Kyle Police and the city council on June 16 reviewed the police department’s policies regarding how they align with the “8 Can’t Wait” campaign. The campaign is to implement policies that will r...

Plum Creek was the focus of 59 volunteers who turned out on Saturday, March to participate in the Great Texas River Cleanup. Volunteers, which included Kyle City Council members Michael Tobias, Dex Ellison and Tracy Scheel, collected, 1,367 pound of trash and 770 pounds of recyclables. The most comm...

With less than a month to go, the city of Kyle is trying to ramp up interest in its celebrations of National Pi Day — but it’s a delicate balancing act. The city that bills itself Texas’ capital of things baked in pastry shells is celebrating the imminent arrival of spring on a day that is the numer...

Outgoing Kyle City Council member Daphne Tenorio posed with a plaque honoring her service. With here are (from left) Council member Dex Ellison, Mayor Pro Tem Rick Koch, Council member Tracy Scheel, Mayor Travis Mitchell, Council member Robert Rizo and Council member Alex Villalobos.   Michael Tobia...

Mass gatherings in Kyle, such as the annual Pie in the Sky festival, will now go through additional scrutiny before the first patron ever enters the gate. On Aug. 6, the Kyle City Council voted 6-0 to amend the city’s existing mass gathering ordinance allowing city staff and Kyle Police to review an...

After three-plus months of contentious debate, Kyle city leaders June 4 gave the final green light for their own 900% pay increase. By a split 4-3 vote, the Kyle city council narrowly approved an ordinance outlining the increase, which will bump city council members’ pay from $100 to 1,000 per month...

Noise complaints levied against Paramotored Paragliders near Lake Kyle Park led Kyle city leaders to contemplate possible restrictions. Worries on overregulation of recreational activities, however, pushed officials to avoid preventing the gliders, or any other aerial device, from flying the friendl...