Texas Republicans will resume pushing through U.S. House maps that would carve out a bigger GOP advantage in the 2026 elections after state Democrats indicated they were ready to end a two-week walkout.

A New Braunfels restaurant hosted auctions to benefit three families who live in unincorporated areas

A man was arrested early Sunday morning in connection with a fatal stabbing outside a dance hall in New Braunfels, according to a news release.

Alexandra Prewett and Benito Lopez were arrested on charges of child endangerment of their toddler, after she was found running near a main road with a diaper covered in feces.

Russell Taylor Johns was arrested Wednesday after allegedly exposing his genitals to two female UT students last April, according to an affidavit.

Two men are in custody after Carlos Romero, 19, was shot and killed in the 500 block of Duck Street on Friday night.

Test scores rose slightly after math scores previously fell last year.

The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a driver and vehicle involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash on Friday night.

Democrats have struggled to find effective ways to oppose President Donald Trump, and even some Democratic voters describe the party as weak.

The Boerne football team enters the 2025 season fresh off a Class 5A-DII state semifinalist finish in the Greyhounds’ first season as a Class 5A program.

The state can take control of a school district if at least one of its campuses receives a failing grade five years in a row.

Healing is coming slow for some in Center Point, but the kindness they've experienced since the Fourth of July has kept them in awe.

The court will reconvene Monday over Zoom, but a decision may not come until later this month.

More than 500 schools are using four-day school weeks, a dramatic increase from two years ago driven by fierce competition for educators amid a statewide teacher shortage.

In the 2024-25 school year, 14% of Texas school districts got an A, 71% got a B or a C, and 15% got a D or an F, new state data shows.

Mounted patrol officers, known as tick riders, who typically patrol the southern border to protect cattle from fever tick, will also now serve as the first line of defense against screwworm.

The U.S. plans to build a $750 million factory in southern Texas to breed billions of sterile flies to ramp up its efforts to keep flesh-eating maggots now in Mexico from damaging the American cattle industry.

The second session is set to consider the same agenda that stalled in the first, with redistricting and disaster response at the top of the governor’s priorities.

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) announced the release of accountability ratings for school districts across Texas, which includes San Antonio-area schools.

Parents of the 27 Camp Mystic girls killed in the deadly Hill Country flooding last month met with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other state leaders to push for youth camp safety reform.

Gov. Greg Abbott was joined by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins at the Texas Capitol where Rollins announced the federal government’s plan to spend up to $850 million to prevent the New World screwworm’s arrival in the United States.

Friends and family of the late co-founder of Family Promise of Greater New Braunfels are keeping his legacy of service alive as they push to get the organization back to its pre-pandemic state.

A former Sabinal High School coach pleaded guilty this week to one count of attempted enticement of a minor, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas.

Every previous public poll had shown the attorney general with a considerable lead over Texas’ incumbent senator.

Texas law bans the sale of synthetic kratom, but it isn’t enforced. Earlier this year, legislation died in the Texas House to ban the natural plant, too.

Two men were arrested, and two suspects remain at large after allegedly stealing nearly $20,000 worth of merchandise from Hibbett Sports in Pleasanton, police said.

The Lutheran Church Charities honored more than 100 people who were killed in the Texas Hill Country over the Fourth of July weekend during a Thursday remembrance event.

As school starts, children and teenagers return to a fun yet challenging social environment. But when it comes to topics such as mental health, bullying and online safety, they don’t always open up to adults.

Lake Dunlap and New Berlin volunteer fire departments said they will have to shut down within a year or so due to low funding following Guadalupe County’s recent proposed budget.

More than three years after the death of a 12-year-old boy, his father was found guilty on five of six charges in the trial over whether he caused injuries to the child.

People are waiting to see if TCEQ grants a wastewater permit. Until then, neighbors want Bexar County leaders to stop what they can.

An off-duty San Antonio police officer is charged with driving while intoxicated (DWI) after he crashed into a home’s front yard earlier this month in west Bexar County.

A federal judge in San Antonio will hear arguments Friday on whether to block a new Texas law that would require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom across the state.

A Texas Mexican Mafia leader from San Antonio was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for his role in a methamphetamine trafficking scheme, according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release.

WK Kellogg Co. plans to remove artificial dyes from its breakfast cereals in the next two and a half years.

In a statement, the House Democratic Caucus said its lawyers had advised returning “to build a strong public legislative record for the upcoming legal battle” against the GOP’s map.

Students in the Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District returned to class on Thursday to start the new school year.

Head coach Larry Hill and the Smithson Valley Rangers won the school's first state football title in late December.

A new Santikos entertainment complex is coming to the far West Side.

Judge Scott Larson ruled that the Texas speaker and attorney general had “failed to present a legal basis for the court” to take up the issue.

Crime lab officials told lawmakers Wednesday they are struggling to keep up with deadlier drugs like fentanyl and a THC ban or new regulations would add to the challenge.

Increasing tariffs on foreign goods and the impact of deportations on the work force cited as job growth slows in Texas.

KSAT will broadcast the Together for Texas benefit concert, featuring performances by Lyle Lovett and Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias, to help Texas Hill Country communities recovering from the July 4 floods. As a result, ABC programs that typically air on Monday nights will be shown at a different time than usual.

The Kerr County Commissioners Court discussed the 2025-26 proposed budget and tax rate during a Wednesday afternoon workshop meeting.

Republicans believe population increases in red states, such as Texas, would offset losses from not counting immigrants who lack legal status.

Kendall County Commissioners decided in favor of allowing voters to determine whether or not a American-themed school can become the county’s newest city this fall.

Five years ago, during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, the board voted to change the high school to Legacy High. On Tuesday, it reversed course.

More than three years after the death of 12-year-old Danilo Coles, his father is finally facing a jury in Bexar County.

Five weeks after the Hill Country experienced a historic flood, Kendall County officials said its recreational water is not completely safe for public use.

A Texas family is suing a Hill Country campground after two of their relatives died in the July 4 floods.

Body-worn camera footage released by Uvalde County on Tuesday captured the chaotic moments when officers finally breached the Robb Elementary classroom where an 18-year-old gunman had holed himself up and killed 19 students and two teachers.

The burn ban went into effect on Tuesday, Aug. 12, after hundreds of acres went up in smoke a week earlier in the Silver Mountain Fire in south Bexar County.

Kerrville City Council is scheduled to meet on Tuesday to discuss the city’s continued response after catastrophic flooding in the Hill Country.

In this week’s episode, Matthew and Eleanor ask University of Houston law professor David Froomkin to help them break down the legal cases seeking to remove 13 Democrats from the Texas House.

Police say a Texas man fatally shot three people in a Target parking lot, including a child and her grandfather.

Democrats' absence has halted work in the Texas House, which must also approve the new boundaries, for more than a week.

Texas, Penn State, Ohio State and Clemson would be the top four seeds in the College Football Playoff based on The Associated Press preseason Top 25 poll.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is escalating the partisan redistricting fight by asking a judge to hold progressive activist Beto O'Rourke in contempt.

Paxton sued O’Rourke and his political group, Powered by People, last week, arguing that the group was deceptively fundraising for and illegally supporting Texas Democrats’ walkout.

The governor and attorney general have asked the court to find that Democratic lawmakers abandoned their seats when they left Texas to delay a new congressional map.

The 149 pages of academic and discipline records for Salvador Ramos were among thousands of pages of documents released by the district this week following a years long attempt by school officials in Uvalde to keep them hidden from public view.

Police body camera footage shows desperate parents begging law enforcement officers to storm an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, in the frantic minutes after a gunman opened fire.

Uvalde County released thousands of public records related to the Robb Elementary massacre on Tuesday.

The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in locating a man wanted in two separate shootings in far northwest Bexar County.

An organization is offering free transportation to people impacted by the Hill Country floods in Kerr County, according to a news release.

Four thousand students are preparing to head back to the classroom in the Floresville Independent School District for the 2025-2026 school year.

Since Democratic lawmakers left Texas to delay Republicans’ new map, state leaders have challenged the limits of traditional democratic norms to break the impasse.

The Alamo Heights City Council approved a special use permit for The Argyle, a private dining club, to expand and build a major event center.

After three months, a fugitive accused of murder is now back in Bexar County.

Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly said during a Monday commissioners’ court meeting that he wants the county to dip into its savings to avoid raising the tax rate.

Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly said during a Monday commissioners’ court meeting that he wants the county to dip into its savings to avoid raising the tax rate.

Delivery drones are supposed to be fast, yet the long-promised technology has been slow to take off in the United States.

School district officials have released text messages, personnel files and student records of the shooter from the 2022 attack at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, that killed 19 students and two teachers.

The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District on Monday released thousands of public records related to the Robb Elementary massacre.

At least two people were killed in a shooting at a Target in Austin, according to police.

Police say a gunman opened fire in a Target parking lot Monday in Austin, Texas, killing two adults and a child.

Herrera, who came within 400 votes of ousting Gonzales in a 2024 runoff, is once again positioning himself to the right of the incumbent.

The Associated Press preseason Top 25 college football poll is out and it's topped by Texas for the first time in an opening poll.

Texas Republicans were unable again Monday to approve new congressional districts to meet President Donald Trump’s demands.

A high-speed chase led law enforcement 40 miles from southern Atascosa County to San Antonio, after the sheriff’s office said it was responding to a suspected theft.

Maria Maxcimiana Soliz, 61, and Ricardo Antonio Guajardo, 56, returned to Schertz Wednesday to surrender themselves to detectives.

Two men were arrested after a traffic stop led Guadalupe County deputies to seize more than 300 pounds of methamphetamine and heroin combined, the sheriff’s office said.

Checks from country music legend George Strait’s July benefit concert were presented to families impacted by the floods in the Texas Hill Country.

The Marion Bulldogs held their first practice of the 2025 football season Monday with a new coaching staff and renewed energy.

Texas Republicans have escalated the penalties against Democrats as they enter a second week camped out in states across the country to block new U.S. House maps pushed for by President Donald Trump to win more seats ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

The order came at the request of Attorney General Ken Paxton, who O’Rourke accused in a separate lawsuit of going on a “fishing expedition, constitutional rights be damned.”

Bexar County jurors needed only three days to hand down a guilty verdict and prison sentence for a man previously charged with killing his neighbor in 2022.

The North Texas city councils said hundreds of millions of dollars were in jeopardy if they didn’t shut certain programs to comply with the Trump administration.

After a three-year long court battle, Uvalde CISD and Uvalde County will release records from the Robb Elementary massacre next week.

Kerr County officials have released the names of 117 victims from the Hill Country floods.

Gov. Greg Abbott previously asked the court to expel Rep. Gene Wu, the House Democratic leader. Paxton disputed the governor’s authority to make the request.

At the core of the fight in Texas over redrawing the state’s congressional districts is a debate over a time-honored right spelled out in the Constitution: Every two years, “the People” get to pick someone to represent their interests in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The July 4th flood left only the floor and foundation at the Hunt Post Office. It’s symbolic, in a way, because to many, the post office is the foundation of the small Hill Country town.

While other universities move to preserve the advisory bodies, Texas State will abolish them under a new state law that curtails faculty’s influence on campuses.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have appeared shoulder-to-shoulder with Texas Democratic lawmakers in a show of support for their nearly weeklong walkout.

The Kerr County Commissioners Court did not meet on Friday to discuss tax rates and salary increases for elected county and precinct officials.

Democrats concede there’s only so much they can do to keep Texas from redrawing its maps. But they want to encourage blue states to retaliate.

The annual summer break is a critical window for Texas’ senior senator, whose allies are blitzing the airwaves with ads courting primary voters — and President Donald Trump.

The Associated Press has assembled a chronology of chaotic rescue efforts as a flash flood barreled through the Hill Country of Central Texas before dawn July 4.

California Democrats are rushing to schedule an election to remake U.S. House districts to counter plans to boost Republican seats in Texas.