YWCA opening new women's housing and resource center in San Antonio

The YWCA will unveil a new women's housing facility and resource center in San Antonio next week. Located at 2318 Castroville Road, the Women's Live and Learn Center includes supportive housing, workforce development and case management services for women ages 18 to 26. The four-year supportive hous

Texan uses pollution settlement to help coastal community

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Despite rise in respiratory illnesses, Gov. Greg Abbott vows Texas will never return to mask mandates

As hospitals in some states require masks to curb the spread of what experts call a quad-demic of respiratory illnesses, Gov. Greg Abbott this week vowed that Texas will never again impose mask mandates. “There will be NO mask mandate in Texas. Period,” Abbott tweeted Thursday, sharing a screenshot

San Antonio's 'shit sandwich' cop hired again as South Texas police officer

Matthew Luckhurst, the fired San Antonio police officer once accused of giving a homeless man a sandwich full of dog feces, has managed to find work again as a gun-carrying police officer. Luckhurst, who was terminated from the San Antonio Police Department in 2020, now wears a badge in service of t