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The city is closer to buying the land for a new San Antonio Spurs arena. The Midtown Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ) board of directors voted 8-4 to allocate up to $60 million to acquire the former site of the Institute of Texan Cultures at Hemisfair. The city is still neg...
City leaders in Converse are looking to voters to decide whether to get the city off the VIA bus. The City Council has ordered an election on whether VIA Metropolitan Transit should continue in Converse. If voters agree to stop VIA service, officials hope the 1/2 cent sales tax t...
Not all board members of the wealthiest tax increment financing zone agreed it should chip in millions to help buy land for the Spurs arena.
SNAP recipients who lost food when Friday’s storm knocked out power may qualify for replacement benefits, according to the San Antonio Food Bank. Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) staff are working with the food bank to help residents apply for additional SNAP ben...
WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert is retiring at the end the year, bringing to a close her seven-plus years at the helm of the league and a stewardship that has been transformative and at times tumultuous. Engelbert is the second-longest tenured WNBA president or commissioner, an...
The European Union ’s Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos on Friday canceled an upcoming visit to candidate nation Serbia over what she described as the “glorification” of former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic following his death . Mladic was convicted of genocide by a U...
Six stellar college students and one recent graduate are joining us this fall as we cover a marquee midterm election cycle and produce The Texas Tribune Festival, our signature politics and policy event. To say it’s an exciting time to welcome them is an understatement. Three tim...
Statewide mail voting for this year’s midterm elections kicked off Friday amid a churning legal battle over President Donald Trump’s attempts to limit the practice and mounting concern over Postal Service changes that some state officials blame for a rise in rejected ballots. The...
After a nine-month tenure marked with controversy, Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City ISD’s Trustee Matthew Short resigned. During Thursday night’s meeting, the board voted unanimously to accept Short’s resignation. Board President Letticia Sever said Short submitted his resignation l...
Northside Independent School District voters will decide Nov. 3 whether to approve a tax increase and three bond propositions. The district is also facing a $33 million budget deficit. The Northside ISD Board of Trustees voted Aug. 11 to place the proposals on the November ballot...
Vice President JD Vance on Thursday rejected the use of the word “war” to describe the U.S. fighting with Iran as he steered clear of predicting that the 6-month-old conflict would be over by November's midterm elections, in which Republicans are trying to hang on to their narrow...
Maryland voters will get to decide in November on a congressional redistricting amendment being pushed by Democrats as part of a nationwide battle for control of the U.S. House in future elections. The Maryland Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the proposed constitutional amendme...
The Missouri Supreme Court has unanimously blocked new congressional districts backed by President Donald Trump from being used in the November election and ordered a statewide vote on whether to uphold or reject the new map. The decision Thursday marks a rare setback for Republi...
The U.S. job market rebounded in August as employers added a surprising 162,000 jobs. The unemployment stayed at a low 4.1%. Revisions added 55,000 jobs to June and July payrolls. Hiring has been up and down this year, two months before midterm elections and at a time when voters...
The lawmakers wrote that they share "grave concern that time is running out … to assist state and local election officials in protecting our elections from cyber and mis-and disinformation threats."...
A progress update on the city's bond projects comes as city council debates cost reductions and tax increases ahead of approving the 2027 budget and bond process. San Antonio narrows to-do list of 2022 bond projects as council mulls 2027 budget and bond was first posted on Septem...
A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency could make it harder for the public to learn about and comment on proposed AI data centers that have sparked backlash in communities across the United States and transformed the midterm election landscape. The EPA proposal would elimi...
A federal judge in Boston said Thursday the U.S. Postal Service has told her nothing about how it would implement a plan to regulate mail ballots for the midterms as she considers whether to let the plan proceed in the weeks before Election Day. U.S. District Court Judge Indira T...
Editor’s note: Are you struggling with higher costs? If so, we want to hear from you. Fill out the form at the bottom of this story to share how rising costs have affected you. In a state once considered one of the most affordable places in the country, candidates have popped up ...
Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey arrived early Thursday in a courtroom not far from LSU that is the focus of college football as several dozen athletes seek a ruling that could clear the way for them to play this fall — even after they turned pro. Former New Orlea...
The latest pieces of President Donald Trump's wide-ranging Washington makeover are set for an airing Thursday in front of a federal panel that already has blessed other big-ticket plans from the designer-in-chief. The National Capital Planning Commission, which this spring approv...
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks reelection, his main concern these days isn’t his political rivals. It’s some of his biggest supporters. A series of small, pro-Netanyahu parties are competing in the run-up to the Oct. 27 vote . But instead of strengthening the ...
We are hearing more from officials following a critical Flock camera vote. Kendall County commissioners voted unanimously last month to end the county’s contract with Flock Safety, shutting down a network of 57 automated license plate readers spread across the county. The vote wa...
President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged Republican lawmakers facing tough reelection campaigns to run on his record in the White House despite his sagging popularity , and he pledged to campaign in all of the roughly three dozen contests that are likely to determine control of ...
A monthslong KSAT Investigates probe reveals a Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City ISD board member falsified at least half a dozen applications for teaching jobs — and continued to get hired at schools across the state. KSAT Investigates requested dozens of records from Matthew Short’...
An immigrant rights group sued the Trump administration Wednesday to block the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from using federal databases that it alleged are being used to target naturalized citizens who are eligible to vote. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Wa...
New York City’s public schools will temporarily ban elementary and middle school students from using generative artificial intelligence tools during the upcoming school year, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday. The one-year moratorium — part of a broader assessment of how c...
Brazil’s top electoral court set new standards for what it will consider to be artificial intelligence -generated deepfakes in political advertising, a move aimed at curbing misinformation and manipulation ahead of October elections. The court issued the ruling late Tuesday in a ...
The former Tropical Storm Edouard weakened into a depression but dumped heavy rain, flooded roads and knocked down trees Wednesday in parts of Texas as it slowly moved north in the state. Schools and municipal offices were closed and residents were told to stay at home. Some area...
Adam Hamilton has spent decades trying to bring people to Jesus as founder of the nation’s largest United Methodist church. Now he wants to bring Kansas voters to the polls as the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate. A first-time candidate, Hamilton faces an unusual balancing act ...
San Antonio will soon vote whether to authorize Pre-K 4 SA for the next 20 years. Staff says it will improve early childcare access. Pre-K 4 SA says it will increase toddler access, affordability if city funding reauthorized by voters was first posted on September 2, 2026 at 5:00...
The Corpus Christi City Council voted 5-3 Tuesday night to reject, again, an almost billion-dollar water treatment plant after a decade of effort and its long-term water supply still in question. The proposed desalination plant was intended to provide a drought-proof source of dr...
The House voted Tuesday to censure Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., following a House Ethics Committee investigation that concluded he engaged in persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct toward two young female staffers in his office. A censure registers the House’s deep di...
Bexar County commissioners on Tuesday voted to keep the property tax rate at just under 30 cents per $100 dollar valuation to fund the next fiscal budget....
The House passed a short-term measure Tuesday to fund the federal government into early December, a move designed to avoid a chaotic shutdown as lawmakers campaign for reelection. Lawmakers needed to act before the fiscal year concludes at the end of September to avoid a funding ...
The federal government agreed in court on Friday to extend a pause on border related construction in Big Bend National Park until mid September, a move welcomed by those challenging the contentious project in the area. Customs and Border Protection already paused activity after C...
The U.S. Postal Service is poised to launch a hastily built, error-riddled computer system that could jeopardize the process of mail voting relied upon by one-third of all voters, according to a whistleblower statement released Tuesday by Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal. The e...
U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler is considered one of the nation’s most vulnerable Republicans in this year's midterm elections . It was the same story in his last campaign, too. But in a political era where both parties are drifting further apart, he's banking on New York voters still want...
