Central American chicken chain plans San Antonio expansion

Central America-born chicken chain Pollo Campero is targeting the Alamo City as its next expansion market, officials said Monday. Founded in Guatemala but now headquartered in Dallas, the fast-casual concept wants to add 15 San Antonio-area restaurants with as many as five coming online in the next

227,000 Texans will be dropped from WIC food program if Congress doesn't act

Some 227,000 new Texas mothers and their kids are at risk of losing access to a key federal nutrition-assistance program because Congress has failed to approve more funding, a recent analysis shows. The funding needs for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children — mo

Cirque Musica will pair classical music with gravity-defying feats at the Tobin Center this week

Cirque Musica, a traveling troupe that combines circus performances with live music, is hitting San Antonio as part of a 70-plus-stop tour of its holiday-themed show set in a faraway winter wonderland. Cirque Musica: Holiday Wonderland offers dazzling acts from a global cast of acrobats, contortioni

Growth in specialized housing struggles to keep pace with city's removal of encampments

In its 2024 budget, the City of San Antonio plans to provide shelter for 400 individuals experiencing homelessness. At the same time, it also pledges to "clean up 700 encampments," meaning the displacement of more of the street population than it plans to shelter.  There simply aren't enough beds fo