Thrive unveils plans for West Side housing to serve LGBTQ+ youth facing homelessness

San Antonio-based housing nonprofit Thrive wants to reverse an alarming trend.  The organization will open a new neighborhood-style community, Thrive Vecindad, to provide 25 LGBTQ+ youth facing homelessness with a safe and affordable place to stay. Billed as a first-of-its-kind initiative, the proje

Native Americans ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear dispute over sacred site at Brackenridge Park

The legal battle over the redevelopment of a site inside Brackenridge Park sacred to Native Americans could head to the U.S. Supreme Court after two lower courts sided with the City of San Antonio. Lawyers representing San Antonio-area tribal leaders filed a petition this week asking the nation’s hi

Analysis: Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton struggles to navigate GOP IVF debate

Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is trying to have his cake and eat it too when it comes to staking out his position on in vitro fertilization, or IVF. Paxton, who’s locked in a tight U.S. Senate race, recently distanced himself from the Texas GOP’s controversial decision to adopt anti-I

One year after the July 4 flood, Kerr County shows signs of trauma and healing

KERR COUNTY — Alicia Baker can’t bring herself to clean her daughter’s bedroom. Eleven-year-old Madelyn “Emmy” Jeffrey left a pile of craft supplies on the floor in their San Antonio home before heading off to the Guadalupe River with her grandparents, where they drowned in the flood last Fourth of