Community ideas, input collected Hays County — Everyone has their own vision of what a healthy community looks like, but the Hays County Local Health Department (HCLHD) is working to make these visions a reality for its residents. The HCLHD held a community health visioning session on March 1 at the...

Staff Report WIMBERLEY -- A 29-year-old man was arrested and charged with murder after Hays County Sheriff's Office deputies found his 60-year-old mother dead inside of a Wimberley residence early Saturday morning. On Feb. 26, deputies responded to an abandoned 911 call and subsequent welfare concer...

These are unofficial results as of 10:31 a.m., Nov. 3. Voter turnout: 12.18%Ballots cast: 18,900Registered voters: 155,158 Buda City of Buda, Position 3 At-Large Emily Jones     438 (33.87%)Virginia Jurika     220 (17.01%) LaVonia Horne-Williams     635 (49.11%) City of Buda, Single Member District ...

By Anita Miller Whether it was “too early” or not, the reopening of the Texas economy in May has lead to healthy sales tax rebates for a number of Hays County communities — though that trend didn’t prevail throughout the state. Here’s the city by city breakdown (all annual percent increases are YTD ...

Every municipality in Hays County, with the exception of two, saw double-digit increases in their monthly sales tax allocation from the State Comptroller’s Office and all but one are also ahead by double digits for the year to date. According to statistics for February, Buda saw a monthly increase o...

With the exception of Mountain City, all of Hays County’s taxing municipalities are ending the year on a positive note when it comes to the percentage of sales taxes allocated from the office of the State Comptroller. The year’s final allocations were delivered this week, revealing how much ground w...

A Wimberley man has been charged with first-degree murder after confessing to authorities that he had killed his wife at their home Thursday evening. Jimmy Lee Rhodes, 68, was booked into the Hays County Jail early Friday and was charged with first degree murder, according to a Hays County Sheriff’s...