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., […]
Review site Yelp dropped its annual list of the nation’s Top 100 Romantic Restaurants for Valentine’s Day Dinner, and San Antonio’s Bliss landed a spot.
The pandemic may no longer be a public health emergency, but plenty of my neighbors, friends and family are still having bouts and brushes with COVID-19. Just this past summer, a relative got COVID-19 on a camping trip. One of my neighbors was sick.
The Texas Department of Transportation has postponed this weekend’s planned closure of the Loop 1604-Interstate 10 interchange due to rainy weather, the state agency said in statement. Originally, the busy junction was set for closure from Friday night through Monday morning.
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A processing facility to recent migrants in the Texas border town of Eagle Pass was evacuated after right-wing extremists threatened to burn it down, according to multiple media reports. The evacuation comes as a convoy of self-described “patriots” makes its way to Eagle Pass to protest the Biden Administration’s border policies. On Thursday, authorities evacuated the […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Colin Allred outraised his Democratic Senate primary opponents and Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign in the last quarter of 2023, though Cruz continues to bring in more cash through his […]
Get ready to Roedo San Antonio. Well, not quite yet. Although the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo doesn’t get underway until Feb. 8, a host of family-friendly events are happening this weekend as part of the lead-up Western Heritage Weekend.
It’s good to know that no matter how tumultuous and chaotic the world gets, many people still cherish memories of people who made our childhoods feel cheerful and less scary. To that point, the Current’s most-read news story of the week was a piece about the passing of ventriloquist Nacho Estrada, who brought smiles and […]