CITY OF SAN ANTONIO

More than 400 applications have come in for the city's $17 million small business grant program since it opened Monday.

After a meeting Thursday with the heads of the Texas Department of Transportation and the Texas Transportation Commission, Mayor Ron Nirenberg said in an emailed statement “We learned today that TxDOT’s priority is not improving traffic flow and mitigating congestion, it’s all about six lanes of asphalt, regardless of capacity.”

From July 22 to 24, San Antonio officials asked federal authorities to halt new arrivals because of capacity issues at its Migrant Resource Center.

San Antonio small-business lender LiftFund will administer the grants, which need not be repaid.

Top City of San Antonio executives think they may have a way to get the city’s plan to redevelop Broadway Avenue back up and running while still following through with a “complete street” vision. But the Texas Department of Transportation doesn’t appear eager to bend on its insistence to keep all six lanes of traffic.

Both planned restaurants are part of the city's partnership with Chef Johnny Hernandez to showcase San Antonio's culinary legacy.

The city of San Antonio is helping assist qualified homeowners with major and minor repairs to their homes through a Home Rehab program.

The City Council resolution also recommends that no local funds be used to investigate criminal charges related to abortions.

The city pitched a proposal to bring the state highway department back on board with lane reductions on Broadway.

Small business owners in San Antonio that have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic can now apply for a grant through the city.

The City of San Antonio’s Department of Arts and Culture is asking the public for its opinion on placing public art throughout the city.

The Alamodome and its partners are hosting the Dome Draft Job Fair from 4 - 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 16.

Opinion: The tech sector's departures from the central business district could make way for an initiative to expand new residential housing.

The City of San Antonio Department of Human Services Head Start Program is holding two application events to inform residents about the program and services offered.

If you’ve been scouring social media this week, you may have noticed “Little Miss” memes taking over the feeds.

The two-year UpTogether guaranteed basic income pilot will invest about $5 million in 1,000 San Antonians over 25 months.

San Antonio Metro Health and the Triple P parenting program will host two free virtual seminars this week in hopes of helping parents communicate with their children about tragic events.

Home now has a new meaning for Vietnam veteran Henry Alvarado and his family.

The City of San Antonio would consider a policy change that would measure just how well large building companies are doing to conserve energy.

SPONSORED: San Antonio's SA Climate Ready plan has recommendations for how individuals and local businesses can contribute.

Anne Elise Urrutia’s Miraflores: San Antonio's Mexican Garden of Mystery employs archival photographs, maps, diagrams and a research-driven narrative to offer a virtual tour of the landmark.

Apprenticeships are being eyed by the city's workforce development leaders as a way to shore up the labor pool.

Ultra-low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines will offer flights between San Antonio and popular vacation destinations, Orlando and Las Vegas.

Opinion: The city's downtown tech scene is effectively dead, but can UTSA's expansion inspire a resurrection?

Rising temperatures are making outside conditions dangerous in San Antonio, and people experiencing homelessness are at a high risk of suffering from heat exhaustion. Despite the heat, nonprofits say they are not seeing an uptick in people seeking help.

The county's cooling centers are open from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. for residents in unincorporated areas of Bexar County or in suburbs within the county but outside of San Antonio’s city limits.

Officials with the City of San Antonio, CPS Energy, SAWS and VIA held a briefing Monday about coordinated efforts to keep people safe in the extreme heat.

With an Excessive Heat Warning in effect for San Antonio Sunday and Monday, CPS Energy is encouraging customers to voluntarily reduce their electricity use, especially during the peak hours of 2 - 7 p.m.

Commentary: For the next generation, it's important to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For this generation, the focus should be on mitigating rising temperatures.

According to city officials, 600 migrants are currently arriving daily in San Antonio, with more than 500 requiring overnight shelter.

Temperatures expected to reach highs of 109 degrees this weekend.

The City of San Antonio is opening its cooling centers this weekend and into next week to help residents get a reprieve from the heat that is expected through Tuesday.

The City of San Antonio and the Texas Department of Transportation are asking the public to weigh in on a project to fix a traffic trouble spot with the construction of a bridge on the South Side near the train tracks by South Zarzamora and Frio City Road.

A big “Empty the Shelters” animal adoption event is taking place across the United States and more than 20 Texas shelters are taking part.

New city and county policies could bring homeowners' property tax bills down this fall. Applications to qualify remain open until July 25.

As San Antonio prepares for more firework displays, it's important to remember to celebrate safely given our dry conditions.

Opinion: Today I'm taking a break from a typical Trailist to tell you about River Aid San Antonio and invite you to join our mission to make portions of our waterways clean enough for swimming again.

After Republican lawmakers launched reviews of books on race and gender in schools, public libraries around the state have faced book challenges from local residents.

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The Fourth of July lands on Monday this year, meaning some city offices that are normally open will be closed due to the holiday.

The City of San Antonio and the San Antonio Food Bank has separate programs with the same goal: Increase healthy food options in areas of town known as “food deserts,” which are defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as low-income areas where the nearest grocery store is more than a mile away.

Here’s a list of some of the events going on in the San Antonio area in July.

A memorial Mass will be held Thursday evening in remembrance of the migrants found abandoned inside a tractor-trailer on San Antonio’s Southwest Side earlier this week.

From festivals, to fireworks and parades, this Fourth of July guide lists your options on where to celebrate Independence Day.

COVID-19 is spiking in the San Antonio area, as cases and hospitalizations are once again on the rise.

The program is expected aid 133 San Antonio artists and 40 arts nonprofits, according to city officials. The window to apply will remain open through July 29.

Need to tidy up your yard but don’t have the tools? San Antonio Community Shed can help.

Even with $20 million from the city's federal coronavirus relief funds, CPS Energy's debt from customers with overdue bills has grown.

For South Texas' Indigenous people, the San Antonio River is more than a popular tourist attraction — it's where life began.

The historic homes will serve as a site of operation for the city's Living Heritage Trades Academy and Material Innovation Center.

Data from the Public Religion Research Institute shows that San Antonio's religious diversity is well above the national average.

Symphony musicians and city leaders are looking toward establishing a new organization to keep the orchestra performing in San Antonio.

Since April 2021, more than 185,000 migrants have come through the city, typically staying only for one to three days, according to the City of San Antonio. The numbers have picked up recently, with the city estimating 19,000 immigrants will come through in June alone.

Roughly 590 migrants are arriving in San Antonio each day, many without the plane or bus tickets they need to get to their final destination.

Like the city of San Antonio and Bexar County, the river authority raised its homestead exemption, roughly doubling the exemption.

At age 87, photographer Allee Wallace said the Holy Spirit motivates him to continue documenting life on San Antonio's East Side.

JobFest 2022 will be held from 4 - 8 p.m. on June 21 at the AT&T Center.

Despite ongoing labor negotiations and after decades of performances, the San Antonio Symphony will soon be no more after a unanimous vote from its board of directors.

Homeowners in San Antonio should see the city portion of their property tax bills stay the same — or even go down — this year after council increased the value of its homestead exemptions.

A nearly year-long investigation by the KSAT 12 Defenders found women who work at the massive complex subjected to treatment at the hands of men they report to that included one woman having her hair pulled and another being temporarily committed to a psychiatric unit earlier this year after attempting to file a complaint at city hall.

In order to re-balance the population of the city’s 10 council districts after a decade of lopsided growth, the city council has to approve a new map using the population numbers from the 2020 U.S. Census.

The free City of San Antonio H-E-B Fourth of July Celebration will be held from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Monday, July 4.

Food trucks and vendors will serve up summer eats to fuel carnival games and family activities.

A twice-fired San Antonio Police officer has lost an attempt to win his job back after he was fired for using a series of spoofed phone numbers to harass a woman with graphic photos, including her own “intimate, personal selfies.”

An attorney representing the family of 13-year-old boy who was shot and killed by San Antonio police announced he is preparing to file a civil rights lawsuit in connection with the incident.

A summer with a record number of triple-digit days seems plausible, especially with more hotter-than-normal days ahead this week.

The City of San Antonio has settled a seven-year-old lawsuit of a man who died as police handcuffed him and held him down on the side of a busy highway in April 2013.

This is the second settlement the City of San Antonio has paid out in just over a month to the family of an unarmed man killed while in police custody.

The San Antonio Board of Realtors is looking to help make policy changes that will help keep local families from being taxed out of their homes.

Aguirre died from 'positional asphyxiation' in 2013.

With triple-digit temperatures in the forecast for at least 10 days, the City of San Antonio and Bexar County have set up cooling centers.

Nets on the Run has spent the last decade and a half replacing old nets, cleaning up local parks, and renovating public sports equipment.

Parents know that taking the kids outdoors could guarantee a speedy bedtime in the summer months, but too much sun and not enough water can lead to health risks.

How do you want taxpayer dollars to be spent? It’s a question we ask a lot and you can actually help decide San Antonio’s next budget.

Temperatures will be near records each day this week

With the heat index expected to reach more than 100 degrees this weekend and through next week, the City of San Antonio has opened cooling centers to provide relief from the heat.

Kin Man Hui/San Antonio Express-NewsThe City of San Antonio is preparing for the high heat indexes expected to hit the Alamo City and stay around for a while. As the heat index is set to reach more than 100 degrees this weekend and through next week, the city wants to help residents find some relief from the sun and its heat. The current forecast says San Antonio is in store for a high of 102 on Sunday, June 5 and is expected to see triple-digit temperatures through Tuesday, June 14.

The San Antonio City Council is using $1.5 million in federal pandemic relief funds to aid groups that help immigrants become citizens.

The 83-year-old San Antonio Symphony charts another lost season amid decades of financial struggles, with no simple solution in sight.

Friday, May 26, has been declared an Ozone Action Day in San Antonio by The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

While the homelessness rate compared to San Antonio's growing population remains flat, there was a 77% increase in the chronically homeless population.

New renderings show what the forthcoming World Heritage Center will look like on San Antonio’s South Side.

San Antonio is already one of the country's biggest cybersecurity hubs. Geekdom wants to supercharge that reputation with a new accelerator.

The Brackenridge Park Conservancy and the San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department have hired 150 goats to assist with clearing out overgrown vegetation throughout 7 acres of the park.

The grant for Culturingua will help refugees with job placement, work training and entrepreneurship so they can move toward self-sufficiency.

The City of San Antonio says a program tackling food deserts is having a big impact across different communities.

The Texas Research and Technology Foundation's goal is to make VelocityTX central to an urban innovation district focused on bioscience.

San Antonio is the primary transportation hub for migrants released from the border; Nirenberg wants other Texas cities to share that burden.

Construction is set to start this summer adding six elevated lanes to the stretch of I-35 from Loop 410 north to FM 3009 in Schertz.

Impact San Antonio is a local women’s nonprofit that aims to help various organizations across the Alamo City.

San Antonio's guide for all things involving the future development of streets, access, rights-of-way and corridors was completed in 1978.

These are the top 10 polluters in Bexar County, according to Environmental Protection Agency data.

The population in and around San Antonio is booming — so much so that an advisory committee has created a draft of a new City Council district map based on the 2020 U.S. Census numbers.

A local agency and the state of Texas say most of San Antonio's pollution drifts in from other states and even Mexico. The EPA disagrees.

Find the latest, updated election results for the election in San Antonio and surrounding areas on May 7, 2022.

Jay Kleberg, a Democrat running for Texas land commissioner, wants to make the Alamo site a tribute to all the Texans who made history there.

The City of San Antonio opened its cooling centers to help residents get a reprieve from the heat that is expected through Monday.

San Antonio will pay $150,000 each to the mother, wife and son of Antronie Scott, an unarmed Black man who was shot and killed by a police officer in 2016.

Commentary: San Antonio voters should evaluate the propositions that make up the $1.2 billion bond program with a healthy dose of skepticism.

The City of San Antonio on Monday celebrated the grand opening of the Park at 38THIRTY, a 100% affordable housing development in the Medical Center in District 8.