The accolades just keep rolling in for French phenom Victor Wembanyama. On Thursday, the NBA named the San Antonio Spurs forward one of 28 players who earned a spot to compete in the league’s 2024 Rising Stars showcase. The annual event, which features a three-game mini-tournament, will air live at 8 p.m. on TNT on Friday, […]
As right-wing extremists on South Texas for this weekend’s “Take Back Our Border Rally,” Texas Democrats aren’t mincing words when it comes to who bears responsibility should violence break out. “Gov. [Greg] Abbott is ignoring the [U.S.] Supreme Court decision and trying to create a standoff against the federal government because he wants to create […]
Premieres Wednesday: Alexander: The Making of a God — The reign of the legendary Alexander the Great is explored in a series that combines dramatic re-enactments and talking-head interviews.
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Cassy Rodriguez, 17, has always been a planner.
The prospect of San Antonio City Council passing a ceasefire resolution in the Israel-Hamas conflict appears all but dead after two key council members this week said they have no interest in debating the matter. On Wednesday, District 1 Councilwoman Sukh Kaur told the Express-News she won’t sign a memo calling for debate on a […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued five Texas cities to block their voter-approved ordinances decriminalizing low-level cannabis possession. Voters in Austin, Denton, Elgin, Killeen and San Marcos approved ballot initiatives designed to halt arrests and criminal penalties for those caught with less than four ounces of weed. Each of the proposals was approved by […]
Former Bexar County Sheriff’s Office corporal Giovanni Ceja has been sentenced to 15 years to life in a second-degree murder case in California, KSAT reports. Ceja, 31, was convicted of striking and killing a man on Aug. 7, 2023, while driving a borrowed vehicle on a highway in Riverside County, California, and fleeing the scene, the TV […]
San Antonio has the 19th-highest rates for sexually transmitted disease (STD) of any large metro, according to a new report. That’s the highest rate of any Texas city, except for Laredo, which landed at No. 18 on the list. The analysis, compiled annually by health information site Innerbody Research, is based on 2021 data, the latest available […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A group of privacy, technology and health care advocates on Wednesday filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission urging an investigation into Deloitte Consulting LLP, claiming that hundreds of thousands of Texans […]
San Antonio has the 19th-highest rates for sexually transmitted disease (STD) of any large metro, according to a new report. That’s the highest rate of any Texas city, except for Laredo, which landed at No. 18 on the list. The analysis, compiled annually by health information site Innerbody Research, is based on 2021 data, the latest available […]