San Antonio got nearly 4 inches of rain Sunday and Monday, setting a record along the way, according to the Express-News, citing data from the National Weather Service (NWS). On Sunday, 1.16 inches of rain fell in the Alamo City, according to the daily’s compilation of NWS data. Another 2.41 inches fell Monday, bringing total rainfall […]
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents can cut through concertina wire deployed along the banks of the Rio Grande as part of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star immigration crackdown. The decision fell along ideological lines with the court’s most conservative justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Nearly 20 months after Texas’ deadliest school shooting, where 19 students and two teachers were killed, multiple investigations into the delayed police and medical response have yet to be released to the public.
The Alamo Colleges rescheduled its sold-out 2024 National Day of Collective Healing event with poet activist and educator Nikki Giovanni, according to officials with the campuses. The event, originally scheduled for this Tuesday as part of San Antonio DreamWeek, now will take place Wednesday, Jan. 31, from noon-2 p.m. at San Antonio College’s McAllister Auditorium.
The San Antonio Film Commission has opened its annual #FilmSA Contest for entries from moviemakers between the ages of 14 and 21. As with previous iterations of the contest, the purpose is to inspire young San Antonians to explore the craft of filmmaking while learning more about their city, according to commission officials. This year’s contest […]
District 8 City Councilman Manny Pelaez last week told the San Antonio Report that he would have voted in favor of a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict had one been debated. The statement from Pelaez, a potential 2025 mayoral candidate, comes after he took action earlier this month to scrap a scheduled […]
City-owned utility CPS Energy is further bolstering its renewable portfolio with the addition of a new 150-megawatt (MW) solar project. The nation’s largest municipally owned electric and natural gas utility has entered into a long-term power purchase agreement with Genesis Consolidated Industries Holdings for a solar project dubbed Exodus 1, officials said Monday. With 551 […]
South Texas and other drought-ravaged portions of the state are heading into the new year with dangerously low water supplies thanks to two consecutive summers of punishing heat, Inside Climate News reports. Large reservoirs on the Lower Rio Grande dropped from 33% to 23% of their capacity during the past 12 months, according to the […]
The Texas Department of Public Safety on Saturday pulled the body of an unidentified man from the Rio Grande near the Eagle Pass public park at the center of a standoff between state and federal officials. State troopers in a tactical boat recovered the body from shallow water south of Shelby Park, according to a tweet from DPS […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Attorney General Ken Paxton tapped his campaign funds to pay $2.3 million on legal fees related to his impeachment trial over the last six months, according to a new campaign finance report.