U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz picked up all sorts of unwanted political baggage when he was photographed fleeing to Cancun during Winter Storm Uri, the devastating ice storm that killed hundreds of his constituents. For obvious reasons, Texas’ junior GOP senator didn’t exactly publicize the trip. Indeed, it probably would have gone unnoticed had people not […]
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The San Antonio Brahmas of the newly formed United Football League released their schedule for the 2024 season on Monday. The team will kick off the season at 11 a.m. Sunday, March 31, in a matchup against the D.C. Defenders at the Alamodome. That contest will be nationally televised on ESPN.
Nashville-based The Peach Cobbler Factory has opened its first San Antonio location, and the store offers more than the chain’s namesake dessert. The company opened its Alamo City location, 1321 N. Loop 1604 E., Suite 103, over the weekend, according to a social media post. Like other outlets in the chain, it dishes up cobblers in […]
The woman serving prison time for the untimely death of Tejano music superstar Selena Quintanilla-Perez is telling her side of the story in a new true crime docu-series airing this month. Yolanda Saldivar was convicted of shooting and killing Selena at a Corpus Christi Days Inn on March 31, 1995, just as the singer was […]
Legendary vocalist Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac fame is coming to San Antonio’s Frost Bank Center on Saturday, May 18, according to show producer Live Nation. General admission tickets for Nicks’ San Antonio concert go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday on Live Nation’s website.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced during a Sunday press conference in Eagle Pass that he and 13 other Republican governors stand ready to deter a so-called “migrant invasion.” “I think the local residents are angry and rightfully so — because their neighborhoods, their golf courses, their shopping areas have all been invaded,” Abbott said at […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. BEAUMONT — If past is prologue, Dade Phelan’s return to the Texas House would be all but guaranteed. Over five terms, he has never once drawn a reelection opponent, ascending to become the […]
Black Bear Diner will open its third San Antonio location, this one on the city’s far West Side, according to the California casual-dining chain’s website. The upcoming Monterrey Village restaurant, 8614 State Highway 151, is listed as “coming soon” on the company’s online list of locations. It will join two other area Black Bear Diners at […]
Texas has spent more than $124 million in taxpayer money sending buses full of migrants to Democrat-led cities, Austin TV station KXAN reports, citing state records. Under a polarizing program Gov. Greg Abbott launched nearly two years ago, Texas has dispatched more than 100,000 migrants in its border communities to cities such as Washington D.C., […]