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Harlan High School product Tate Taylor is one of the fastest sprinters in the country and is chasing his goal of becoming the greatest American sprinter of all time.Guided by club coach Kevin Schexnayder, who also goes by “Coach K,” Taylor followed a long-term development plan built on trust — ev...
FORECAST HIGHLIGHTSRIVER FLOODING: Major to moderate flooding still underway, high water moving downstreamDRIER FORECAST: Quieter conditions take over this weekend for all UPDATED RAINFALL TOTALS: Historic rainfall totals over the last weekAQUIFER/LAKE UPDATES: Aquifer and area lakes still rising...
Two organizations teamed up and gave back to the next generation of athletes by bringing together football talent with roots in the Alamo City.You may remember the names Caden Sterns, Jordan Sterns and Justin Stockton. Not long ago, our KSAT Sports team followed their success on the football fiel...
This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.Nearly a decade ago, a British court ordered a man named Sam Westrop to ...
First responders on a bridge covered by water after the flood in Kerrville on July 16, 2026. Brenda Bazán for The Texas TribuneNever miss a story! The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter gives readers the most essential Texas news. Sign up for The Brief.One year after catastrophic flooding killed mo...
A federal prosecutor in Texas shared new details Thursday evening about the moments before an immigration officer shot and killed a Mexican national and longtime U.S. resident in early July. The disclosure complicates the government’s earlier claim that the man struck an ICE vehicle before he was...
Utah revoked another campus license on Friday for the boarding school where Paris Hilton said she was abused as a teenager, marking a major victory in the hotel heiress’ yearslong effort to get the school shut down.The Utah Department of Health and Human Services' decision cites a multitude of no...
A new exhibit at the City of San Antonio’s Special Collections Museum is highlighting the often-overlooked role women played in shaping early Texas and supporting the American Revolution.The museum, which opened last November, debuted the “Rancheras” exhibit in January. Curated by Special Collect...
The U.S. Interior Department on Friday canceled a rule meant to protect plants and animals that are determined to be threatened with extinction, the latest step by President Donald Trump’s administration to dismantle key provisions of the landmark Endangered Species Act at the behest of industry....
Three days of torrential rain across the Texas Hill Country have done something years of waiting could not: push Medina Lake into a visible, measurable rebound.State data from the Texas Water Development Board shows the lake hit 23.4% full as of July 17, 2026 — up from 12.9% on July 15. That is a...
Floodwaters that people in Crystal City say rose to higher levels Friday than they’ve ever seen before had some of them on edge. According to the Zavala County Sheriff’s Office, an unknown number of people evacuated their homes on the southern end of the city Friday morning due to flooding.Some o...
The families of two men who discovered through DNA tests that they were switched at birth 38 years ago are accusing a North Dakota hospital of robbing them of the lives they were supposed to lead.Kyle Bylin discovered his birth family after taking an at-home test he chose randomly during a Christ...
Residents across Kerr County spent their Friday cleaning up after another round of flooding swept through the area, bringing renewed anxiety to communities still recovering from last year’s deadly Fourth of July floods.Heavy rain caused the Guadalupe River to rise again Thursday, sending floodwat...
San Antonio Democrat Kristian Carranza, who’s running for the Texas House District 118 seat, this week reported that her campaign raised more money than any other Texas House Democrat this cycle. Since Jan. 1, Carranza, who’s vying to represent Bexar County’s southern and eastern exurbs in the Te...
Gov. Greg Abbott says the flood threat isn't over even as rain eases, warning rivers will continue rising while Texas begins recovery efforts.
The first day of school for the 2026-27 school year is right around the corner. Here’s where you can find school supply drives and giveaways in San Antonio.
The listening tour for the public to weigh in on a planned downtown San Antonio Spurs arena kicked off July 13 and continues through July 27. Here’s the updated schedule for the Spurs public listening tour on the future arena and downtown sports district was first posted on July 17, 2026 at 5:15 ...
Bryson DeChambeau was given a two-shot penalty after his second round at the British Open on Friday that dropped the American star out of the final group and raised initial doubts about whether he would show up on the weekend at Royal Birkdale.In a dramatic late-evening development after a 4-unde...
San Antonio and the city’s police union reached a tentative labor agreement that now heads to union members and City Council for approval.
A Tobin Hill mansion built in 1899 and now operating as a bed-and-breakfast called A Victorian Lady Inn has hit the market for just under $2 million. The towering 4,500-square-foot residence was designed by Atlee B. Ayres, who served as the State Architect of Texas from 1914 to 1917, and was resp...
A 28-year prison sentence is too lenient for a Libyan militant who was convicted of terrorism-related charges in the 2012 attacks on U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.A three-judge panel from the...
Shohei Ohtani had a lubricant injected into his left knee, but the Dodgers two-way star did not have fluid drained, Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts said Friday.Ohtani was 0 for 4 with a pair of warning-track flyouts as the leadoff batter and designated hitter in Friday's 2-1 win over the New Yor...
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The game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Cleveland Guardians scheduled for Friday night has been postponed due to air quality concerns because of wildfire smoke from Canada and northern Minnesota.Heavy, pungent wildfire smoke darkened skies in the U.S. from the Great Lakes to parts of the ...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s got more bad news this week on the fundraising front. The so-called “Stop Talarico PAC,” a political action committee created by GOP operatives to thwart Paxton’s Democratic rival in the race for Texas’ contested U.S. Senate seat, told the Federal Election Comm...
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that New Jersey's bans on assault firearms and magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds are unconstitutional.This is the first time a federal appeals court has struck down a state ban on such weapons, and it comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is set to conside...
About a year ago, the Guadalupe River destroyed their RV park, where a family was swept away by the raging water.
San Antonio’s culinary legacy goes well beyond tacos and tequila. These 15 foods, drinks and iconic combos all trace their roots to the Alamo City — or at least wouldn’t exist in quite the same form without it. Chili con carne Credit is due to San Antonio’s famous Chili Queens for this meaty, ch...
Millions of people in the Great Lakes, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states muddled through another day of unhealthy air from uncontrolled wildfires on Friday.The thick smoke enveloped the nation’s capital in a gloomy, eerie haze and prompted Major League Baseball's Cleveland Guardians to postpone t...
Rookie Jake Bennett tossed six innings of one-hit ball, and Masataka Yoshida and Carlos Narvaez each homered as the Boston Red Sox extended their winning streak to 10 games with a 10-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday in the first game of a doubleheader.Narvaez and Jarren Duran each drov...
Houston police worked with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on at least 103 occasions since April, according to the first report required by the Houston City Council to measure cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. The quarterly immigration report,...
A 65-year-old Kerrville man is dead after floodwaters swept away his mobile home.
At least two people died after extreme flooding hit the Hill Country late Wednesday into Thursday morning.
Aaron Judge's broken rib has not completely healed, and the New York Yankees captain still hasn't been cleared to resume baseball activities.Judge hasn't played since May 31 because of a stress fracture in his right ribs. He had a scan during the All-Star break and called the result positive news...
The NFL has suspended Arizona Cardinals personnel executive Ryan Gold indefinitely for violating the league’s gambling policy.The league said Friday that its investigation determined that Gold provided confidential, non-public inside information regarding 2026 draft selections by the Cardinals be...
U.S. companies signed roughly $60 billion in agreements and partnerships with the Iraqi government Friday, including deals intended to create alternative routes for shipping oil out of the Persian Gulf. The deals, signed at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, also involved other industries, including h...
About 100 buoys that the federal government planned to install as anti-immigration deterrents near Eagle Pass drifted into the Rio Grande, prompting officials to close two key bridges along the U.S.-Mexico border for about three hours, reopening them just after midnight Friday. Eagle Pass shut do...
Floodwaters from Goat Creek spilled over a Kerrville road early Thursday, pushing water into a family’s home and leaving them to watch as nearly all of their property was swept away. April Jones said the water started coming in between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m.“We thought it was runoff from our yard, and...
Clara Ester, an activist who as a 20-year-old college student rushed to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s side when he was shot, has died. Ester, who died on July 9 at the age of 78, was among a few remaining witnesses to King’s assassination and its immediate aftermath in Memphis. With the passi...
Two high-profile Republican candidates in Texas are under fire from their Democratic opponents for declining to participate in debates, long considered a cornerstone of U.S. democratic traditions. On Friday, State Rep. Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, lambasted Gov. Greg Abb...
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