San Antonio to hold MLK Jr. Day event this weekend

Even though San Antonio last month scrapped its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day March due to icy conditions, the city is moving is staging a replacement event to honor the late civil rights leader. The “City of San Antonio Community Coming Together: Working Beyond the March” gathering will take pl

Paxton’s push to oust incumbents puts spotlight on Court of Criminal Appeals primaries

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The three incumbents running for their seats on Texas’ highest criminal courtwere not well known political figures outside of the legal community.

Medical cannabis firm Texas Original opens its first permanent pickup spot in San Antonio

Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation, one of the state's three approved medical cannabis suppliers, has opened its first permanent prescription pickup location in San Antonio, officials said Friday. Located near Alamo Heights, the new storefront at 1464 Austin Highway, Suite 104, will operate 11

Did an Operation Lone Star contractor fly Tennessee's governor to Eagle Pass?

On Sunday, Feb. 4, 13 Republican governors flocked to Eagle Pass to stand in support of Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security showdown with the feds. It appears one of them may have hitched a ride on a private jet owned by an Austin contractor that has cashed in on the taxpayer windfall generated by Op