No. 2 draft pick Dylan Harper and the San Antonio Spurs will take on No. 1 pick Cooper Flagg and the Dallas Mavericks Wednesday, Oct. 22, for both teams’ season-opening game, NBA officials said Tuesday. The historic matchup will mark only the second time since 1966 that the top two picks in the same draft […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday asked a Tarrant County judge to jail former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, in another escalation in Republicans’ broader effort to put an end to Texas Democrats’ […]
The San Antonio Paranormal Festival will return to haunt Victoria’s Black Swan Inn on Saturday, Sept. 20, reveling in all that’s strange and unexplained, organizers said Tuesday. The festival, hosted by Curious Twins Paranormal, will kick off spooky season with a celebration of history and mystery along with shopping, lectures and food at the historic […]
Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. Also, sign up for The Brief, The Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. New Uvalde school district records released late Monday provide more details […]
A San Antonio nonprofit representing mothers who lost children to fentanyl poisoning has installed the city’s first-ever free dispensing machine for Narcan, the best-known brand name for the opioid overdose reversal drug Naloxone, KSAT reports. The group Soles Walking 4 Soles got its start by promoting an annual fentanyl awareness walk but has since expanded into offering […]
Who says San Antonio is “boring”? Case in point, Alamo resident Johnny Hernandez encountered a peculiar sight around 2 p.m. on Monday while running errands in downtown San Antonio. At the highway overpass at Josephine Street and Avenue B, a VIA bus was stopped with lights flashing and a shirtless gentleman had somehow climbed on […]
Downtown San Antonio soon will have another spot to yuck it up. Houston’s The Riot Comedy Club plans to open a 4,900-square-foot location near the Alamo as part of a planned eight-city expansion, owner Brian Gendron told the Houston Chronicle. The club, located at 400 E. Houston St., will begin hosting comedy acts sometime this fall.
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones said during a Monday press conference that she doesn’t need support from the rest of City Council to order up an independent economic-impact analysis for Project Marvel, the city’s proposed downtown sports-and-entertainment development. Jones also told journalists the majority of council supports collecting more data on the project. “I think that […]
Actor John Leguizamo visited San Antonio last week to film an episode of his NBC travel show Leguizamo Does America, which highlights U.S. Latino communities. The episode aired on Sunday evening and is available to watch online. During his visit to San Antonio landmarks, Leguizamo visited the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, the cultural corazón […]
Gun vlogger Brandon Herrera — known as the “AK Guy” to fans of his YouTube channel — has launched another primary challenger to take down Republican U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, whom he lost to in 2024. “I’m officially throwing my hat back into the ring to finish what I started and get a turncoat Republican […]