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Like plenty of local boys before him, Neil has come home to the stretch of Australian coast where he was born. Unlike most of them, he trails fame, fans and property damage in his wake. He is also a 1,000 kg (2,200 pound) elephant seal.In June, the bellowing and blubbery 5-year-o...
The Alamo Regional Mobility Authority held a meeting on Thursday evening to discuss traffic issues on Alamo Ranch Parkway between 1604 and Calaveras Way.Around 100 people showed up to the come-and-go meeting in just the first hour. Bexar County had several engineers at the meetin...
A Maine couple heading out for a day of fishing happened upon a scene fit for a nature documentary: A moose calf running for its life with a large black bear in pursuit. Elvia and Todd Malcolm were in Telos Township, Maine, about an hour or so from their home in Lincoln, when the...
A former Olympian was indicted Thursday on a felony charge in what President Donald Trump has called vandalism of the Reflecting Pool. David Hearn, a former Olympic canoe racer, was indicted on a single count of property destruction in Washington, D.C. court. District of Columbia...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Tuesday decision to strike down caps on coordinated spending by political parties and candidates could boost GOP Senate nominee Ken Paxton, giving national Republicans a new tool to eat into James Talarico’s fundraising edge. The 6-to-3 decision eliminate...
Eileen Castle's swimming pool, one of the only ones for blocks around, was once a refuge for neighborhood children on hot summer days.But even as temperatures soared this week, Castle, 82, said she won't be filling the pool — not with the data center behind her house buzzing with...
Russia likely used shadow ships to launch drones over Europe that repeatedly disrupted civilian aviation, as it monitored military sites and tested the air defenses of NATO nations, according to a report published Thursday by the International Institute of Strategic Studies think...
For many, the Fourth of July means spending time outdoors either on the patio, in the pool or around the grill. But with summer in full swing, mosquitoes may drop in for a bite or two.If you are looking to create a mosquito-free zone, you may want to consider products to place in...
The legal battle over the redevelopment of a site inside Brackenridge Park sacred to Native Americans could head to the U.S. Supreme Court after two lower courts sided with the City of San Antonio. Lawyers representing San Antonio-area tribal leaders filed a petition this week as...
A weak free-agent pool has NHL teams turning to the trade route and also securing their own players to long-term extensions, in developments that became evident as the market opened on Wednesday.New Jersey locked up captain Nico Hischier long term, signing the Swiss center to a f...
Gov. Greg Abbott called for blocking new data center development in rural parts of the state during a campaign stop in East Texas on Tuesday.“We must prohibit them from building AI data centers in rural Texas neighborhoods,” Abbott said at the Bullard event, which primarily discu...
Attorneys representing the Lipan Native American Church have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court decision allowing San Antonio to move forward with redevelopment plans at Brackenridge Park that church leaders say would destroy a sacred religious si...
Nature's oven was on high Tuesday for millions of people in the Midwest and Great Lakes states as intense heat and humidity baked the regions with no immediate relief before the misery shifts to the eastern U.S. The National Weather Service was blunt: Conditions were “dangerous” ...
The owner of Commonwealth Coffeehouse has been indicted in connection with a fraud scheme, according to federal court records obtained by KSAT Investigates after they were unsealed Tuesday. Jorge Ernesto Campos Herrero faces one count of bank fraud and one count of aggravated ide...
Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state.LUBBOCK — Ever since the New World screwworm burrowed into the U.S. earlier this month, speculation follow...
A 65-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a man last year on the South Side, the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office said Monday.Ruben Cantu fatally shot Ricky Marquez Jr., 42, during a nightclub parking lot altercation on Feb. 2, 2025, at Papi Gallo...
Hundreds of grieving families across Texas are bracing to mark one year without their loved ones after the devastating Hill Country floods of July 4, 2025.Among them are Malorie and Wade Lytal of San Antonio, whose 8-year-old daughter, Kellyanne, died at Camp Mystic. The couple s...
Two children were attacked by two family dogs Monday on the Northeast Side, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said.Sheriff’s deputies responded to the dog attack around 4:30 p.m. at a home in the 8100 block of Sheldon Trail, a preliminary report said. A mother reported her two ch...
The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office is investigating two deaths on the far West Side.Around 3:30 p.m. Monday, authorities responded to the scene in the 12000 block of Culebra Road, near Roft Road.BCSO said two people are confirmed dead. At this time, the nature of the deaths are un...
Ja Morant is headed to Portland, after the Trail Blazers and Memphis agreed on a trade Monday that sees the Grizzlies starting anew and gives the two-time All-Star a chance to revive his career, a person with knowledge of the agreement told The Associated Press.Portland is sendin...
Roughly two dozen immigration advocates, faith leaders, Japanese internment camp survivors and their descendants completed a four-day, 45-mile pilgrimage Saturday to an immigrant detention facility outside of Dilley. The activists demanded the closure of the only federal family d...
Summer camp and other outdoor activities were canceled or delayed Monday as a heat wave held its grip on the Midwest and spread eastward. Communities opened cooling centers and urged people to take it easy and stay hydrated. “Overall, we’re looking at just a really hot and humid ...
The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), which fights to elect Democrats to state legislatures, will flow money into two San Antonio races as part of the $50 million it plans to spend in Texas this cycle, according to the San Antonio Report. Texas House districts 118...
Kara Swisher is everywhere.She's filling in for Joy Behar on ABC's “The View.” Appearing alongside Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada 2.” Starring in a CNN documentary. Preparing a national tour. And churning out four podcasts most weeks featuring long-form interviews and com...
This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook, X, and Bluesky. Four years ago, after authorities in San Antonio found 53 immigrants dead in a trailer...
The 250th anniversary of America's liberation from a king kicked off with a campaign-style rally on the National Mall by President Donald Trump, whose face already stares down from banners fluttering from federal buildings across the nation's capital.The images illustrate how the...
The time has come for country music superstar Alan Jackson to hang up his signature Stetson hat.The genre traditionalist from Newnan, Georgia, whose career kicked off in the 1980s and exploded shortly thereafter in the oft-cited '90s country wave with heartfelt songs for the work...
A new Mississippi law will authorize the state's top law enforcement agency to compile a list of all immigrants illegally living in the state. What's to be done with that information is a bit open-ended. But the law set to take effect Wednesday is sparking alarm among immigrant a...
Thousands of people were expected at Crockett Park on Saturday for the Pride Bigger Than Texas Festival, an eight-hour celebration of LGBTQ+ history, resilience and community support.Organizers said about 5,000 people were expected to attend the festival, which featured food, ent...
As the White Sox were slugging their way to a 22-1 victory over the Royals on Friday night, former player Ron Kittle was getting married in a ballpark suite with Chicago chairman Jerry Reinsdorf officiating.Kittle tied the knot with his girlfriend, Barbara, in Reinsdorf’s suite d...
Candace Parker’s basketball journey has come full circle.It started when she led Tennessee to two national championships, then continued in the WNBA, where she was part of three titles and won two MVP awards. She also helped the U.S. win two Olympic gold medals.Parker will be ind...
An Israeli drone strike on Saturday killed two Palestinian siblings, including a 15-year-old girl, in southern Gaza and wounded at least seven others, according to Nasser hospital, where the casualties were taken.The strike targeted tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in the ...
Just because your bank account’s sweating through the summer doesn’t mean you have to spend the next three months hiding indoors. From movie nights under the stars and live music in city parks to history lessons, art and family-friendly festivals, San Antonio is packed with ways ...
After Camp Mystic filed for bankruptcy Wednesday, questions came in about what this means for the company and the lawsuits against the camp. 27 girls and camp director Dick Eastland died in the July fourth floods. The camp has faced several investigations into its handling of the...
Major League Baseball proposed limiting most free agent contracts to five years and 15% of a team's salary cap and to eliminate deferred compensation, fleshing out details of a salary cap plan likely to spark a confrontation with the players' association.During a bargaining sessi...
A liner along the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was cut with a sharp knife or razor this month, causing damage to the foam sealant installed as part of a $16 million rehabilitation project, a top official at the National Park Service says.The agency reported the ...
Today @ 10:30 a.m., Chicken Salad Chick opens new restaurant in South Texas, The Wrestling Shops offers a fun summer camp for kids & a small, local restaurant brings a taste of Italy to the west side.They’re giving you something to “cluck” about - The nation’s first fast casual c...
A new wine bar from the Dallas-based restaurant group behind Whiskey Cake, Ida Claire and Haywire is slated to open in Northwest San Antonio’s La Cantera development on Monday, Aug. 10. Sixty Vines will debut its first San Antonio location this summer at 15900 La Cantera Parkway,...
Congressional Democrats called for investigations Wednesday into renovations at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, as the ongoing drama over the president’s problem-plagued, $16 million rehabilitation project continued to roil the capital. Lawmakers in the House and Senate dem...
Randolph-Brooks Federal Credit Union will launch Stars, Stripes & Service, a statewide food drive running July 1-24, 2026, to help families facing food insecurity across Texas.The campaign will engage 64 RBFCU branches with a goal of collecting 25,000 pounds of nonperishable food...
A woman was found shot to death along the bank of the San Antonio River at a Wilson County park, according to the sheriff’s office. Just before 3 p.m. Tuesday, deputies responded to a report of a deceased person at Helton Nature Park in the 15600 block of FM 775. The Wilson Count...
Camp Mystic, the all-girls Christian camp where 28 people died in last July’s catastrophic Texas floods, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization Wednesday. The camp listed debts between $10 million and $50 million and estimated its assets between $1 million and $10 million...
Eryka Vasquez and Alejandro Lopez know sarcoma as more than a diagnosis. It’s the phone calls, the surgeries and the bills that keep coming for doctor visits, medications, procedures and even parking while patients often can’t work.Sarcoma is a cancer of the connective tissue, fo...
Camp Mystic filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization on Wednesday, nearly a year after catastrophic floods killed 25 girls and two teenage counselors at the all-girls Christian camp in Texas.In paperwork filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston, the camp listed its d...
Camp Mystic filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization on Wednesday, nearly a year after catastrophic floods killed 25 girls and two teenage counselors at the all-girls Christian camp in Texas.In paperwork filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of Texas...
Hot summer days bring kids to pools, rivers and lakes, but those same waters can turn dangerous in seconds, especially for inexperienced swimmers.“Most of the time when we hear a drowning call come in, it’s for the little ones. It’s for your toddlers. It’s your babies,” said Hale...
President Donald Trump sees America’s 250th anniversary as a chance to get the country excited again — about Donald Trump.The president is hosting a rally Wednesday on the National Mall in Washington. He has said it will be replete with a military flyover by stealth bombers, mili...
Ukrainian forces struck a major natural gas processing plant and two key satellite communications centers in their latest nighttime attacks on Russia, Ukraine’s General Staff said Wednesday.The operation was part of Ukraine’s aerial campaign targeting energy facilities and milita...
At Six Flags Fiesta Texas, the thrills take center stage. When it comes to the weather operations, safety is the top priority.In a region known for fast-changing weather conditions, park officials rely on real-time data to make critical decisions that protect guests. Monitoring t...
On one side of the world, Xiangqi Chen can be punished for her LGBTQ+ activism. But on the other, the activist and artist is lauded as a trailblazer — the architect behind the first of its kind Chinese queer art museum.The irony that she left her home in China and found a public ...
Pharrell Williams sent Louis Vuitton’s dandy surfer at star-filled Paris Fashion Week over a giant curling wave Tuesday, closing the opening day of menswear shows with a glass-walled camper, a moonlit set and a collection that put clothes ahead of spectacle.A moon rose overhead, ...
San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama is the face for Louis Vuitton’s newly unveiled Spring-Summer 2027 Men’s Collection. The collection was designed by American musician and songwriter Pharrell Williams, who’s also the Men’s Creative Director of the luxury brand. Images Louis...
The Portland Trail Blazers picked Minnesota Timberwolves assistant Micah Nori as their next head coach on Tuesday, after making the playoffs for the first time in five years under the direction of interim coach Tiago Splitter.Nori, who spent the past five seasons with the Timberw...
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U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan has died at the age of 100. He died on Monday from complications of Parkinson’s Disease, according to his wife, Andrea Mitchell. “To me he was my husband, who shaped my life from our very first date in 1984," Mitchell said. "He had ‘irrat...
The U.S. military has conduced another strike against a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, immediately killing two people and leaving six survivors amid an ongoing campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America.The latest attack — whi...
Bryce Harper was looking to change things up Saturday. So he got to the ballpark for some early batting practice, then switched his bat to a heavier model usually reserved for workouts.The result was his first career cycle in the major leagues on a night when his Philadelphia Phi...
Get ready for some diverse Father's Day specials at St. Anthony Hotel's Gallery On The Park and Pearl's third-annual Burger Showdown.Father’s Day specials: a $500 burger at St. Anthony Hotel, burger showdown at Pearl was first posted on June 19, 2026 at 11:00 am.©2021 "San A...
The 2026 NBA Playoffs brought back a lot of memories for Spurs fans who have cheered on the team for decades — from the days of George Gervin, to the playoff rounds with David Robinson and finally to the Big Three of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili. But for many young S...
