San Antonio's new doom metal bar Torche is already closing down

After fewer than three weeks in business, doom metal bar Torche is already shutting down over what its owners say is an unresolvable zoning issue. Code-enforcement officials reached out to the property owner right after the bar opened Aug. 1, saying it wasn't properly zoned to have live music on its

A South Texas school district received a request to remove 676 books from its libraries

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. McALLEN — On May 17, with just one week to go until the end of the school year, the superintendent of the South Texas Mission school district received an email with a list of

Turning trauma into activism: She's fighting for reproductive rights in Texas and beyond

This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook and Twitter. When I talked to Amanda Zurawski in early August, she had just finished: a Women For Harris call for Vice President and Dem

San Antonio police officer fired for failing to search man who later shot himself

The San Antonio Police Department fired an officer for his failure to pat down a 19-year-old suspect who shot and killed himself last year at the Bexar County Jail, KSAT reports. Officer Abdiel Munoz lost his job July 29 following an internal affairs probe, according to the TV station. Investigators