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A third desalination site under the city’s consideration is being studied, with preliminary conclusions expected in the upcoming weeks.

Nearly 200 people apply to an oversight panel for the Minneapolis police department, breaking a record.

In a near unanimous voice vote Thursday, the San Antonio City Council passed a new “Proactive Apartment Inspection Program,” which stems out of the attention that properties with numerous citations like Seven Oaks Apartments attracted in the summer of 2022.

See every candidate, race on the ballot for the May 6, 2023 election in Bexar County.

The San Antonio City Council appears ready to throw Animal Care Services a bone.

The port commission's approval comes after concerns about how some City Council members negotiated the terms of the agreement.

The city of Denver will pay $1.6 million to seven people who were injured by the police while they were demonstrating peacefully over the 2020 killing of George Floyd.

Atlanta officials say a new complex would 'reimagine' policing. Critics say it would train officers in urban warfare and destroy public woodlands.

Residents in Newburyport, Massachusetts are calling for the City Council to adopt a resolution to replace the state's flag and seal, claiming it promotes racism.

Atlanta, Georgia law enforcement officials responded to the future Atlanta Public Safety and Training facility where equipment was on fire and protestors were clashing with police.

Rosie Castro will represent District 7 for roughly three months before a new member chosen in the May municipal election is sworn in.

Amid a standing ovation, the San Antonio City Council confirmed the civil rights activist and mother of the city’s two most recognizable political figures, Maria del Rosario “Rosie” Castro, as the interim council member for District 7 on Thursday morning.

The San Antonio City Council has all but named the activist, former educator, and mother of the city’s two most recognizable political figures, as the interim council member for District 7.

The Washington, D.C. City Council says its bill allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections is now law after the Senate failed to meet a deadline to review the legislation.

A proposal to let noncitizens vote in local Washington D.C. elections is not law after Congress failed to push to block it

An activist and former educator, who is also the mother of two of San Antonio’s best-known political figures, is among the District 7 residents who have applied to fill an empty seat on city council.

Instead of waiting for new complaints about the same old properties, the City of San Antonio plans to send code enforcement officers out to proactively look for issues and make the landlords of the troubled properties help foot the bill.

San Antonio will be saddled with paying out two settlements totaling over $200,000 for police fender benders.

Beginning Memorial Day weekend, some visitors to Fredericksburg’s Old Mill Park will once again pay to enter the city’s waterfront site.

Embattled San Antonio Councilman Clayton Perry appears to be trying to get into a specialty court for military veterans, which could help him keep drunk driving and hit-and-run charges off his public record.

Supporters of a San Antonio ballot initiative meant to decriminalize marijuana possession and abortion in the Alamo City say the city attorney’s public warnings about its enforceability are “unethical” and “immoral.”

When the filing period for San Antonio’s May 6 election had closed at 5 p.m. on Friday, 59 candidates had signed up to vie for the 10 council districts and the mayor’s seat. The election will be the first under the city’s newly redistricted council district map.

They will be arraigned charges of murder, assault, and other felonies. Tyre Nichols died three days after the officers beat him following a Jan. 7 traffic stop.

Because the proposed charter amendment was the result of a successful petition, the city’s legal team said the city council had no choice but to put it on the ballot.Even so, three North Side councilmen made sure to leave council chambers rather than help pass it: Councilman Manny Pelaez (D8), Councilman John Courage (D9), and Councilman Clayton Perry (D10).

A day before the filing deadline for the May 6 election, a spokeswoman for Perry’s office passed out a statement from the councilman saying he will not be running, though he said “this is not the end of my public service.”

San Antonio City Councilman Clayton Perry said he will not run for a fourth term after DWI charges were filed related to an alleged hit-and-run.

Spencer Cronk, who headed the city since 2018, fell out of favor with council members after communication failures that mirrored problems from the 2021 winter storm.

San Antonio City Council will select someone in early March to represent District 7 for the remaining three months of Ana Sandoval's term.

Council member districts 5 and 6 are also on the ballot.

As Councilman Clayton Perry's legal troubles from an alleged Nov. 6 hit-and-run continue, possible opponents are eying his seat on council, which some allies have advised him to seek for a fourth term. But with just over a week left in the filing period, Perry says he still hasn't made up his mind whether to run for re-election.

City staff say the city's Solid Waste Fund is "structurally unbalanced" and will likely warrant a rate increase in the 2024 fiscal year. It's not clear yet how much that could be.

The City of San Antonio received $145 million worth of funding requests. Though that far exceeded the money it had available, the city still didn't award all of its budget.

Opinion: Moses Rose’s Hideout owner Vince Cantu is the last holdout preventing the planned Alamo Museum and Visitor Center from proceeding.

The City of San Antonio will start to accept applications to fill the District 7 vacancy on the city council beginning Feb. 13.

District 10 Councilman Clayton Perry had a virtual pretrial conference scheduled Tuesday morning in Bexar County Court at law 12 for both charges stemming from the Nov. 6 crash: DWI and failure to stop and give information.

Incumbents and newcomers alike began arriving a little after 8 a.m. at San Antonio City Hall on Wednesday to get onto the May 6 city ballot as early as possible.

Sandoval, who was first elected to the San Antonio City Council in 2017, has only four-and-a-half months left in her current term, which ends in June. She plans to step down at the end of the month to focus on personal obligations.

Applications can be filed at the Office of the City Clerk in City Hall at 100 Military Plaza from Jan. 18 until 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17.

A little less than two months after he left for a “leave of absence,” Clayton Perry took his seat again with the rest of the San Antonio City Council.

A one-two punch of COVID-19 and construction could be the fall of several small businesses. San Antonio is now providing financial aid in the form of the COVID-Construction Recovery Grant Program.

After less than two months away, embattled City of San Antonio Councilman Clayton Perry plans to return from a leave of absence and take up his seat on the dais, according to a fellow council member.

District 10 Councilman Clayton Perry was granted a sabbatical to seek treatment after his involvement in an alleged hit-and-run crash.

The New Braunfels Arts and Heritage Commissions determined the funding that should be allocated to organizations throughout the city.

Weekly status update meetings are held for the St. Mary’s Strip and the first of the new year got heated.

The proposed grant program would help businesses that were only beginning to recover from economic catastrophe wrought by the pandemic.

The filing period for mayoral and City Council candidates starts Jan. 18 and ends Feb. 17. Candidates must pay a $100 filing fee or submit signatures.

The New Braunfels City Council decided to prioritize transportation projects, the Southeast Library Branch and completing the Mission Hill Park as propositions on the May ballot.

A local attorney is threatening more lawsuits as a new City Council, backed by the local Republican Party, gets to business.

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District 10 Councilman Clayton Perry was taken into custody Wednesday, December 28, for an alleged DWI connected to a hit and run case from November.

About $1 million from a new climate resiliency fund has been earmarked to go toward experimental pavement sections in all 10 council districts.

The new two-story center will be located at Del Mar College's Oso Creek Campus.

City councils are typically nonpartisan. Odessa residents are wondering if that’s still the case after the local Republican Party helped elect new council members.

Some local leaders say they worry the changes violate state law, while residents who...

Some local leaders say they worry the changes violate state law, while residents who supported decriminalizing marijuana say the pushback disrespects democracy.

A homeless state of emergency proposed by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was approved by the City Council Tuesday.

Market Square is preparing to undergo major renovations

San Antonians for Rail Transit is advocating for better Amtrak services between Texas cities, commuter trains and light rail.

The League of United Latin American Citizens sued the city Monday, asking a federal court to halt its practice of electing five of its 16 council members through at-large elections.

The retired U.S. Air Force officer was immediately sworn into the same position he previously filled from January 2014 to June 2017. He will represent the North Side council district again until either Perry returns or his term expires in early June 2023.

A former councilman, a business professor, and a retired AT&T Worker have made the short-list to replace District 10 Councilman Clayton Perry on the San Antonio City Council.

A former councilman, unsuccessful candidates, and a bicycling advocate are among the 18 people who’ve thrown their hat in the ring to temporarily replace District 10 Councilman Clayton Perry on the San Antonio City Council.

Representing a district stretching from Austin down I-35 into San Antonio, Greg Casar talks about his plans for working in the new Congress.

San Marcos City Council postponed a decision on the revised Animal Ordinance for the second meeting in a row.After nearly an hour of discussion, council members voted 4-1 on Tuesday to postpone a deci[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

City Council members in the central Oregon city of Bend have approved strict new rules for homeless camping that will limit where, when and how people can live outside, as a growing number of cities across the state seek to control encampments amid a surging homelessness crisis driven by an affordable housing shortage and the coronavirus pandemic. OPB reports that the code change, approved Wednesday, will require people camping on city property and public right-of-ways such as sidewalks and landscaping strips to move locations by 600 feet, or one block, every 24 hours. Additionally, the code dictates what homeless people can possess while living outdoors.

Los Angeles' new mayor has outlined her vision to turn around a troubled City Hall and restrain an out-of-control homeless crisis in the nation's second-largest city.

KSAT viewers shared their thoughts in a recent unscientific poll that shows nearly 80% of people who voted in the poll think Perry should resign.

Questions about why Clayton Perry wasn’t immediately arrested on the night of his hit-and-run crash on Nov. 6 have lingered in many San Antonians’ minds. San Antonio Police Chief William McManus, though, says his officer simply did not have enough to arrest the councilman when he found Perry lying in his own backyard with a visible head injury.

The dates were established for Laredo's runoff elections for mayor and two City Council seats, and the county-wide voting availability for the election is pending approval from the Secretary of State.

City council members make an annual salary of $45,722. A city spokeswoman originally said on Tuesday that Perry and his temporary replacement, who has yet to be appointed, would both be paid while the councilman is away. However, Perry’s chief of staff told KSAT late Tuesday afternoon in a phone call that the councilman plans to work with the city’s human resources department to decline his pay while he is on his leave of absence.

Following the scandals and “no-confidence” votes on two city council members, Mayor Ron Nirenberg reshuffled City Council assignments Monday, stripping one member’s assignments and restoring another to a more active role on council.

Mario Bravo and Ana Sandoval will no longer serve on City Council committees together, and Clayton Perry will be removed from all committees.

Voters in Portland, Oregon, have approved a ballot measure that will overhaul the city's government, spurred by growing concerns over homelessness and a desire to make City Hall more inclusive.

The San Antonio City Council plans to appoint a temporary replacement for District 10 Councilman Clayton Perry while he takes a "sabbatical." A resolution that originally called for him to resign was watered down during a special meeting.

Members of a city task force are split over whether to support recommendations on changing the current noise ordinance.

U.S. Rep. Karen Bass has pulled ahead of developer Rick Caruso in their back-and-forth contest to become mayor of Los Angeles.

Laredo City Council rejected the lone engineering bid it received for the City of Laredo Conference or Convention Center and agreed to issue another request for proposals.

District 10 Councilman Clayton Perry on Monday said that he will not resign from office and instead plans to take a sabbatical “so that I can heal.”

The vote will not force Perry’s resignation; if convicted, council could vote to remove him

The emergency meeting will be city council's second vote of no confidence in less than a week.

The San Antonio City Council is facing a slew of shockwaves Thursday after one councilman was taken into custody for his involvement in a hit-and-run crash and another was censured following a recent angry confrontation.

San Antonio Councilman Clayton Perry was visibly intoxicated and caused a disturbance minutes before he was involved in a head-on crash, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

In a public rebuke of one its own members Thursday morning, the San Antonio City Council censured and passed a no-confidence vote on Councilman Mario Bravo (D1).

The San Antonio City Council is scheduled to decide Thursday whether to censure District 1 Councilman Mario Bravo and issue a vote of “no confidence” over his angry confrontation with District 7 Councilwoman Ana Sandoval.

Laredo City Council is considering adopting a revised plastic bag ordinance similar to one enacted four years ago in Brownsville.

A spokesman texted a statement from the Mayor to KSAT Tuesday morning, saying, “If the details in the police report regarding Sunday night are accurate, Councilman Perry should resign.”

An SAPD officer found the District 10 councilman lying in his backyard, injured and smelling of alcohol, after a witness to the crash followed the offending vehicle, according to a redacted SAPD report. Though the report redacted the suspect's name, law enforcement sources confirmed Perry was the one involved.

Opinion: Politically, Bravo is toast. However, the District 1 City Council member was elected by voters, not by his colleagues.

An investigator found that Bravo's attack on Councilwoman Ana Sandoval violated city equal employment opportunity, anti-harassment and workplace violence directives.

An investigation found Bravo’s “actions violated City Council’s rules and expectations that are reflected in City Administrative Directives 4.67 Equal Employment Opportunity/Anti-Harassment and 4.80 Violence in the Workplace,” according to an agenda memo posted online Thursday evening.

Major League Baseball has approved the sale to local investors rumored to be looking for land to build a stadium in downtown San Antonio.

There’s no denying that Fredericksburg is growing rapidly. In fact, our population grew about 15% between 2010 and 2020, and our neighboring counties grew at about the same rate or

Norma Thornton, 78, was arrested for distributing prepared food from a van to the homeless population in Bullhead Community Park in northwest Arizona.

Nearly the entire slate of Corpus Christi City Council is in the hands of voters.

The Sky Ranch Municipal Utility District and Guadalupe County MUD 5 were approved for development during the Oct. 24 New Braunfels City Council meeting.

Lost River Film Fest returns to San Marcos, beginning Thursday.Hays County’s sixth annual installation of new, independent cinema from across the planet will take place throughout the weekend, chiefly[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

Fredericksburg’s physical growth provides a graphic illustration of how infrastructure determined its economic development. Founded in 1728, Fredericksburg initially grew by annexing the land that encompassed its expanding street grid.

Due to the former chair stepping down, a new chair and vice chair of New Braunfels Utilities's Rate Advisory Committee have been appointed.

A Gruene business owner was successful in her bid to expand the operation after New Braunfels City Council members on Monday unanimously gave final approval to a rezoning and special

New Braunfels City Council approved the first of two readings of a pet sales ordinance, regulating the retail sale of cats and dogs in the city.