In a rare moment of unity, the majority of San Antonio City Council appears to agree Thursday that the proposed budget thrown together by City Manager Erik Walsh is a nonstarter. Tasked with figuring out a way to plug a hole in the city’s looming $130 million budget deficit, Walsh proposed raising property taxes by […]
The Alamo’s podcast, Stories Bigger Than Texas, has won a prestigious award from the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) for making history accessible to a broad audience. The AASLH presented Stories Bigger Than Texas with its 2026 Award of Excellence, the organization’s most prestigious annual honor. The recognition comes as the historic […]
A gay attorney who represented Pride San Antonio in a controversial lawsuit over San Antonio’s rainbow crosswalks has been appointed to a leadership role in the Texas Republican Party, according to the SA Report. Lawyer Justin Nichols will now represent San Antonio as a member of the Texas State Republican Executive Committee (SREC), a governing […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court sided Thursday with a Texas marijuana user who wants to legally own a firearm, the latest in a line of firearm cases from a court that has expanded gun rights. The justices, in a unanimous decision, sided with Ali Danial Hemani, who argued that a law barring guns from […]
The San Marcos City Council voted Tuesday night to prohibit data centers within city limits, Austin TV station KXAN reports. The college town is in the epicenter of data center gold rush along I-35 between San Antonio and Austin. The heavily trafficked corridor is experiencing the what some experts have called the nation’s biggest boom […]
Gov. Greg Abbott professed the state’s religious tolerance in a post on X after the Texas Rangers broke with other Major League Baseball teams by hosting a Faith and Family Night in lieu of a Pride Night. The Republican governor’s tweet comes just a week after reporting by Texas Monthly laid out how his office […]
San Antonio city staffers haven’t yet started negotiating final details of a deal with Spurs Sports & Entertainment (SS&E) for a new downtown basketball arena, City Manager Erik Walsh said during a Wednesday afternoon media briefing. Walsh’s meeting with the media came just before he spoke at City Council’s B Session to provide an update […]
The municipal development district of a small Texas border town is suing the federal government to stop construction of the border wall in the area near Big Bend National Park. The municipal development district of Presidio — located some 250 miles east of El Paso — filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, […]
The Texas Education Agency on Wednesday dropped an investigation into whether San Antonio Independent School District improperly handled a child abuse allegation, district spokeswoman Laura Short confirmed. “The investigative warnings previously associated with the superintendent’s certification record have also been removed from the Educator Certification Online System account,” Short said. SAISD officials said the TEA […]
The five-game series pitting the San Antonio Spurs against the New York Knicks was the most-watched NBA Finals since 1998, suggesting renewed interest in the league after years of declining viewership. The 2026 NBA Finals averaged 20.6 million viewers, surpassing the 2017 Warriors-Cavaliers Finals and marking the highest Finals average since the 1998 Bulls-Jazz series, […]