Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The federal government plans to spend $1.26 billion to build the country’s largest immigration detention center at Fort Bliss, an army base in El Paso, according to a contract announced in July.
Texas House Democrats have returned to Austin after remaining out of state for two weeks to derail Republican efforts to redraw the state’s political maps. Now, the Democrats say they’re back in the Texas House chambers to build a legal case against “racist gerrymandering.”
San Antonio police arrested a food truck worker over the weekend on charges that he shot another man who tried to steal a tip jar from the business, KSAT reports. SAPD officers responded to a disturbance call shortly before midnight Saturday on the 1100 block of West Hildebrand Avenue, according to KSAT. The altercation came […]
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During a Thursday radio appearance, former San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg appeared to poke fun at his successor, Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones, who’s known as a stickler for etiquette at City Hall. Nirenberg dropped by San Antonio Sports Star’s The Blitz with Jason & Joe to talk about — you guessed it — the proposed Project Marvel […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. As Texas lawmakers debate a ban on the synthetic THC industry, another unregulated, but deadlier synthetic drug known as kratom is lying in wait to take over the ever-growing statewide demand for recreational […]
Minutes after adjourning this summer’s first special session of the Texas Legislature, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday called yet another while Texas House Democrats remain out of state. The Dems departed Austin earlier this month to prevent GOP lawmakers, who control the Lege, from forcing a vote to redraw the state’s congressional maps ahead […]
San Antonio police officer David McCall turned himself in Thursday after a magistrate judge issued an arrest warrant for a charge of driving while intoxicated, department officials said. McCall, an 18-year veteran of the force, has been under investigation for suspicion of drunk driving since he was involved in a single-vehicle crash on the afternoon […]
Things are about to get neat, San Antonio. The 10th Annual Whiskey Business will take place Friday, Aug. 22, at the Witte Museum, raising a glass to a decade of serving up bold bourbons, big flavors and boozy good times.