Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones joined the KSAT Q&A on Tuesday to discuss an upcoming public meeting regarding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in San Antonio.
The utility is considering a set of rate increases that could bring the average monthly residential bill from $60.41 now to $79.47 in 2029 — a 31.6% increase.
District 8 Councilwoman Ivalis Meza Gonzalez has been reinstated to her City Council committee assignments following her July 2025 DWI arrest, according to documents obtained by KSAT.
Crews were seen Monday morning beginning the process of removing rainbow crosswalks from San Antonio’s Pride Cultural Heritage District, after months of back-and-forth between city and state leaders.
The San Antonio City Council is planning to hold a Special Session on Jan. 22 about the increased presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to a councilmember's Instagram post.
The City of San Antonio can continue work on removing rainbow crosswalks and installing rainbow sidewalks in the heart of the Pride Cultural Heritage District, a judge ruled Friday.
Attorney General Ken Paxton is claiming victory over San Antonio and its controversial Reproductive Justice Fund. However, his announcement also comes nearly four months after the city said the controversial fund would not be used to pay for travel for out-of-state abortions, due to a change in state law.
In an attempt to force San Antonio City Council action, a conservative group and the organizer of the local Pride parade filed a lawsuit to prevent the city from removing rainbow crosswalks or installing rainbow sidewalks in the heart of the Pride Cultural Heritage District.
The city is already working to add rainbow treatment to the sidewalks along the stretch of North Main Avenue, known as the “gay strip.”
District 2 City Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez and the city’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commission gathered on Monday to officially invite the public to the annual MLK March and Celebration, set for Jan. 19.
Zohran Mamdani will become mayor of New York City as the clock ticks over into 2026 — but the celebrations are set to last through New Year’s Day.
Attorneys alerted the Scenic Loop-Helotes Creek Alliance this week that state regulators did not act on the nonprofit’s request for a new hearing regarding a controversial housing development.
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones sent a letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott that asked him to reconsider a decision that affects federal funding for children’s summer lunch programs.
San Antonio City Council this week approved a renaming for a portion of an East Side street in honor of the Tuskegee Airmen, the United States Armed Forces’ first African-American pilots.
San Antonio will move its municipal elections from May to November after a 6-5 council vote Thursday afternoon. The decision came after a last-minute blitz by Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones, who said she only learned of the opportunity last month.
San Antonio will install rainbow-colored sidewalk treatments on North Main Avenue in order to “recognize and support the LGBTQ+ community,” according to a city spokesperson.
A City of San Antonio housing manager was allowed to stay in her role last year, despite an internal investigation that determined she embellished portions of her work history, records obtained by KSAT Investigates show.
Overall crime in San Antonio declined more than 13% in 2025, according to data presented Tuesday by Police Chief William McManus to the City Council’s Public Safety Committee.
The City of San Antonio’s LGBTQ+ Advisory Board held a holiday meet and greet on Tuesday night, weeks after the Texas Department of Transportation denied the city’s request to keep rainbow-colored crosswalks in the pride district.
The now-former council staffer accused of leaving a note with a “threatening” statement in the field office of Councilwoman Misty Spears (D9) would not answer KSAT’s questions about it on Tuesday. However, his former boss — and Spears’ predecessor — has jumped to his defense.
A City of San Antonio audit described its Neighborhood & Housing Services Department as having an environment vulnerable to fraud, waste and abuse, records obtained by KSAT Investigates show.
The City of San Antonio’s LGBTQ+ Advisory Board held a holiday meet and greet on Tuesday night.
A staff member for a San Antonio City Council district office has been arrested on a terroristic threat charge, according to an email obtained by KSAT from City Manager Erik Walsh to Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones and the city council.
Several West Side homeowners said they regularly see speeding and crashes at the intersection of Cincinnati Avenue and Stonegate Drive.
Work is set to begin on a $15.3 million project to renovate the clinic and build a new veterinary hospital next door, nearly five times its size.
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Most of the San Antonio City Council appears reluctant to move the city’s elections from May to November in odd-numbered years before a Dec. 31 deadline.
Two weeks after a 76-year-old woman died after being hit while crossing an Southeast Side intersection, family and neighbors are asking the City of San Antonio to make safety and infrastructure improvements.
City Council on Wednesday will debate whether to move its city council elections from May to November in odd-numbered years.
The city-owned water utility expects it will needs to raise revenues across its water supply, water distribution and wastewater systems by nearly 42% over the next five years.
The San Antonio City Council will debate whether to move its city council elections from May to November in odd-numbered years at a Wednesday meeting.
The City of San Antonio is considering alternatives to sending officers to do parking enforcement or handle the low-priority calls that make up about 10% of the 1.8 million dispatched calls each year: minor car accidents, lost or stolen property, found property, or noise enforcement.
San Antonio City Council will consider an item later this month that could add nearly 100 traffic-monitoring and vehicle-detection cameras at intersections across the city.
Membership appointments for a newly formed pedestrian and transportation safety commission made up of transportation advocates and practitioners from across the spectrum was approved by San Antonio City Council this week.
The City of San Antonio’s Transportation Department has launched a High-Injury Network Dashboard, part of a larger concerted effort to curb severe and fatal crashes.
San Antonio Councilwoman Teri Castillo (D5) wants the city to take more steps to protect older San Antonians. She submitted a policy proposal on Wednesday asking the city to provide “no soliciting” yard signs, lobbying for stronger laws and providing access to legal aid.
Drivers on part of the Northwest Side could have to pump their brakes as the city considers a plan to downshift the default speed limit on city streets from 30 to 25 mph.
District 8 Councilwoman Ivalis Meza Gonzalez avoided a license suspension after her July DWI arrest, court records show.
A street safety project in Beacon Hill cleared review by San Antonio’s art commission this week, advancing despite a call from Gov. Greg Abbott to “remove all political ideologies” from Texas streets.
A North Side councilwoman accused of driving with a blood alcohol content of nearly double the legal limit appeared in court for the first time Monday since she was arrested 16 weeks ago.
A deadly crash on a curvy East Side neighborhood street has people there calling for more protection against speeding drivers.
District 6 council member Ric Galvan filed the city’s first Council Consideration Request (CCR) to examine the exponential growth of data centers in San Antonio.
Centro San Antonio, Visit San Antonio, District 3 Councilwoman Phyllis Viagran, and other city officials held a pep rally on Friday to recognize the approval of Propositions A and B.
On this week’s “Connect with the Council,” KSAT’s Ernie Zuniga visited Joe Angel’s Boxing Gym on San Antonio’s west side to sit down in the ring with District 5’s Teri Castillo.
San Antonio City Council on Thursday approved major updates to its existing film incentives program, months after Texas passed a new law aimed at growing the state’s role in securing productions.
With departures including Jones’ first chief of staff and two short-lived spokesmen, the chairman of the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Department of Political Science and Geography, Professor Jon Taylor, said the rate of turnover since Jones took office in mid-June suggests instability.
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones received a less-than-enthusiastic response Thursday evening during an event organized by several LGBTQ+ organizations at the rainbow crosswalk in the Pride Cultural Heritage District.
San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones is searching for two new staffers after her communications director and special assistant tendered their resignations on Friday.
On this week’s “Connect with the Council,” KSAT’s Ernie Zuniga visited Denman Estate Park to chat with District 8 Councilwoman Ivalis Meza Gonzalez.
Recent statements made by San Antonio leaders suggest a land bridge over Interstate 37 may be scrapped amid uncertainty surrounding Biden-era federal grants.
San Marcos could see its existing City Hall moved down the street, closer to a growing urban center, after city council members unanimously approved new plans this week.
Proposition B opponents have filed an ethics complaint with the City of San Antonio, alleging some city council members have used town hall-style meetings to push a pro-Spurs arena viewpoint ahead of the Nov. 4 election.
On April 14, Martinez, 51, was driving with her son in her recently purchased Ford Explorer through the intersection of North New Braunfels Avenue and Dawson Street. There, at the East Side intersection, an SAPD civilian crime scene investigator pulled into her path in a city vehicle.
On this week’s “Connect with the Council,” KSAT’s Ernie Zuniga visited Woodlawn Lake Park to chat with District 7 Councilwoman Marina Alderete Gavito.
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones and a city committee flipped on a no-action recommendation from staff to track heat-related deaths in San Antonio, approving the policy for a future Community Health committee meeting.
This fall, the San Antonio Spurs hope Bexar County voters give them the OK to return to the spot where the city first fell in love with them: Hemisfair.
High school homecoming celebrations in Mississippi ended with two separate shootings on Friday night.
Bexar County leaders are voicing concerns on the controversial Guajolote Ranch development proposed for northwest Bexar County.
COPS/Metro gathered on the steps of City Hall on Friday to protest Proposition B, a measure that would allocate Bexar County dollars to help pay for a new Spurs arena if voters approve it in the Nov. 4 election.
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones will not be sanctioned for soliciting the Democratic National Convention to come to San Antonio after the city’s Ethics Review Board dismissed an ethics complaint the mayor called “politically motivated.”
Marina Alderete Gavito (D7) and Ivalis Meza Gonzalez (D8) took a tour of the Guajolote Ranch development earlier this week and have since filed a report, calling for their fellow council members to discuss the issue for the first time.
Earlier this summer, San Antonio police officers began to provide Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones after-hours security at her home, records obtained by KSAT Investigates show.
The nonprofit organization COPS/Metro hosted a press conference on Thursday in opposition to Proposition B, which appears on the November election ballot.
The Ethics Review Board will hear a complaint on Monday regarding Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones’ solicitation of the Democratic National Convention to come to San Antonio.
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones and City Manager Erik Walsh said they do not expect any immediate effects on city services that rely on federal funding during the government shutdown.
An economic impact analysis on Project Marvel commissioned by the City of San Antonio will cost taxpayers more than $330 thousand dollars, according to records obtained by KSAT Investigates.
Two San Antonio city councilwomen got their first look Tuesday of the site of a controversial housing development that borders their districts in northwest Bexar County.
On this week’s “Connect with the Council,” KSAT’s Ernie Zuniga visited Hemisfair to chat with District 1 Councilwoman Sukh Kaur outside Commonwealth Coffeehouse & Bakery.
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones' first 100 days has been marked by city council power struggles, tackling a growing deficit and losing a collection of high-profile votes. But the freshman mayor says success is about being able to "look in the mirror."
In her time as mayor, Jones has notably lobbied for delays to Project Marvel and changes to the Council Consideration Requests (CCR) process amid a constant back-and-forth with city council members.
Neighbors have called KSAT three times this year about crashes on Heather Meadow, the main road that runs through the Blue Ridge Ranch neighborhood.
A local Republican Party official who filed an ethics complaint against Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones over her pursuit of bringing the Democratic National Convention to San Antonio wants Jones to offer the same opportunity to his party.
A median project on Pleasanton Road intended to improve pedestrian safety has frustrated residents and business owners on the South Side.
The San Antonio City Council voted 9-2 on Thursday to amend an ordinance for the city’s policy proposal process amid a power struggle at City Hall.
Facing a budget crunch amid flagging property and sales tax revenues, the San Antonio City Council still passed a $4.06 billion budget Thursday morning.
A power struggle is continuing at City Hall as four council members challenged San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones’ push to overhaul the process for advancing policy proposals.
Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales has recused himself from District 8 Councilwoman Ivalis Meza Gonzalez’s DWI case.
City Council approved a new set of fines for people caught abandoning animals in San Antonio in a 10-1 vote Thursday morning. In a statement emailed to news outlets after the vote, Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones said, “it lacked the required due diligence and public engagement.”
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San Antonio City Council passed a motion to censure District 8 Councilwoman Ivalis Meza Gonzalez after her arrest on suspicion of driving while intoxicated (DWI) in July.
During a budget work session Wednesday, Councilman Marc Whyte (D10) referenced a KSAT Investigates story about the mayor’s use of Washington, D.C.-based Frontwood Strategies to, in part, handle her media communications.
The Bexar County District Attorney’s Office has refiled the DWI charge for District 8 Councilwoman Ivalis Meza Gonzalez.
An outside media consultant brought on board by San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones in late August is costing taxpayers $10,000 a month, internal city records obtained by KSAT Investigates show.
Low-attendance classes offered by the San Antonio Parks & Recreation Department are on the budget chopping block as the city tries to close a looming deficit.
On this week’s “Connect with the Council,” KSAT’s Ernie Zuniga visited the North Side to chat with District 9 Councilwoman Misty Spears at The Mermaid Cafe.
Citing “new information,” San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones called a special meeting to consider censuring District 8 Councilwoman Ivalis Meza Gonzalez after her arrest on suspicion of driving while intoxicated (DWI) in July.
A proposal to fine people caught dumping unwanted pets and other animals in San Antonio will get a council vote after all.
A project to make improvements along a major East Side roadway is causing growing pains for some people in the area.
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones delayed a proposal this week that aimed to punish people who abandon animals in San Antonio, a source told KSAT.
As the City of San Antonio tries to close a yawning budget deficit, part of staff’s solution is to raise various fees and fines, including parking tickets.
The San Antonio Spurs’ first public rally in favor of a new arena will be in an area they hope to call home soon: downtown San Antonio.
An ensemble of labor organizers in San Antonio met Monday morning in opposition to Project Marvel, the city’s planned sports and entertainment district at Hemisfair.