San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones' bid to delay Project Marvel talks rejected by city staff, council majority

Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones during a marathon City Council meeting Wednesday proposed pausing negotiations between the city and Spurs Sports & Entertainment (SS&E) on a new $1 billion-plus downtown arena for NBA franchise. However, she faced pushback from both staff and the majority on the dais. Despite

San Antonio FBI agents helping Sen. John Cornyn locate Texas House Democrats ... he claims

Senator John Cornyn, R-Texas, has triumphantly announced that the FBI has agreed to help him locate the Texas House Democrats who fled the state to break quorum, the Texas Tribune reports. Cornyn claimed on a local radio show operatives from the federal agency's San Antonio and Austin offices have b

Paxton launches investigation into Beto O’Rourke’s political group for funding Democrats who left Texas

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. WASHINGTON — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into whether Beto O’Rourke’s political group, Powered by People, is breaking laws by funding Texas

Repeating History: Survivors of South Texas’ World War II internment camps see terrifying parallels in Trump’s immigration crackdown

For the first four years of his life, all Hiroshi Shimizu knew was imprisonment. After Pearl Harbor, law enforcement arrested his mother and father because they happened to be of Japanese descent, and he was born a U.S. citizen in a concentration camp in Central Utah. The family bounced from camp to