San Antonio opens cooling centers, offers tips for Memorial Day weekend heat

With temperatures expected to hit or exceed 100 degrees this weekend, the City of San Antonio is taking steps to keep residents cool and safe. The city is opening 10 places for residents to stay cool, one in each City Council district. The sites will be open from noon to 8 p.m. over the long weekend

New exhibition at San Antonio's Briscoe Museum centered around wildlife paintings

San Antonio’s Briscoe Western Art Museum next month will become the latest host of the touring exhibition "Survival of the Fittest: Envisioning Wildlife and Wilderness with the Big Four." The exhibition comes from The National Museum of Wildlife art in Wyoming in collaboration with the Netherlands’

Dangerous Texas Memorial Day heat made 5 times more likely by global warming

Originally published by Deceleration, a nonprofit online journal producing original news and analysis responding to our shared ecological, political, and cultural crises. The first full blast of industrially supercharged heat of 2024 is arriving this week across San Antonio and South Texas. With tem

‘The Patrón’: How Henry Cuellar and his family control Webb County, Texas

This story first appeared in NOTUS, a publication from the nonprofit, nonpartisan Allbritton Journalism Institute. WEBB COUNTY, Texas — Long before he was indicted, Rep. Henry Cuellar was considered the “King of Laredo.” And as he rose to power and prominence in South Texas, he brought his sister Ro