A coalition of environmental groups last week announced its opposition to a proposed 5,000-seat concert venue at 14820 Fitzhugh Road, near Dripping Springs. The coalition, Stop Fitzhugh Concert V...
A new Best Buy internet retail sales operation center will start with 25 employees and add more in coming years under an economic development incentive agreement approved today by San Marcos and ...
https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2016/08/best-buy-locate-internet-sales-hub-san-marcos/
The effects of Senate Bill 709, signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott last year, are starting to be felt. The bill changed Texas’ contested hearing process for environmental permits. One of its m...
The Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District is moving quickly to prevent a change in the city of Dripping Springs’ wastewater management that could threaten Dripping Springs’ dri...
After dodging a potential death blow on Monday night, the Lone Star Rail District took another hit on the chin on Tuesday. One day after the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization opted ...
https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2016/03/hays-county-uncouples-from-lone-star-rail/
A longtime business on Manchaca Road is searching for a new home. It’s About Thyme nursery recently learned that the property on which it sits was sold for $2.8 million. The new business taking...
Mountain City Council members appear to have a different view of the future of Mountain City than many residents of the tiny town. At least that is the impression after the May 20 public meeting....
https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2015/06/mt-cityians-to-council-dont-change-our-town/
Hays County residents started seeing their annual notice of home appraisals in the mail this week. The Hays Central Appraisal District started sending out the notices — more than 76,000 of them...
https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2015/05/cad-values-up-in-2015/
Is it time for northeastern Hays County residents to start paying the full price for emergency medical services? Buda Fire Chief Clay Huckaby hopes voters will think so come May 9 when they have ...
https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2015/04/esd-asks-voters-for-funding-to-keep-up-with-growth/
The cross-county water fight between the Wimberley/Driftwood area and Buda heated up this week as Hays County Commissioner Will Conley used his Facebook page to call out Buda Mayor Todd Ruge in a...
https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2015/04/hays-commish-calls-out-buda-mayor-on-facebook/
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sent letters to Mayor Steve Adler, Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt and others Wednesday, expressing concerns about the potential environmental impacts of the...
https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2015/04/us-fish-wildlife-concerned-sh-45-sw/
The debate about the Electro Purification well project continued Tuesday in Hays County Commissioners Court as a neutral scientist weighed in on the data. District Senior Hydrologist and Aquifer ...
https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2015/04/the-voice-of-hydrogeologic-reason-in-hays/