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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is Monday, Jan. 20, and while thousands are expected to gather for San Antonio’s MLK March, there will be some city closures to know about.
The stakes are higher for the May 3 election, with four-year terms instead of two, and larger salaries approved by voters. It will also be the first mayor's race without an incumbent since 2009.
Under gray skies, crews with the City of San Antonio’s Public Works Department struggled against strong winds on Friday morning to lift two colorful works of art into place.
Seguin police said it is looking for persons of interest who may have vandalized a statue called “Wendy the Squirrel.”
The city is trying to encourage mixed development that supports the new $446 million “Green Line,” which VIA Metropolitan Transit hopes to start operating by late 2027.
Two transportation briefings this week will tackle aspects of San Antonio’s ongoing Bike Network Plan (BNP) update.
San Antonio Independent School District trustees will return to the discussion of a potential land swap deal for a downtown baseball stadium in a meeting Monday afternoon.
The City of San Antonio has passed a plan to phase out horse carriages by 2030. Now we are getting reactions from viewers, some who are happy about the decision and others who are not.
The Market Street Cycle Project will install a nearly one-mile, two-way cycle track from Flores Street to Interstate 37.
Two years after a pair of council members pushed to ban carriage rides for hire, the San Antonio City Council voted 10-0, with one abstention, on a compromise plan to phase out the carriages over the next five years.
Small businesses owned by women or people of color will get less advantage when they bid on some City of San Antonio contracts starting next year.
Council members' approval is needed before the city can raise fines for repeat offenders or begin sterilizing dogs before they are returned to their owners.
On the heels of an announcement to revitalize San Antonio’s city center, council members are figuring out the potential of some of those plans.
The opportunity to go after the first open San Antonio mayor’s seat since 2009 has drawn a wide pool of applicants. However, a local political consultant told KSAT that they’ll likely need deep pockets to rise above the rest.
Amid a "fireside chat" with the head of a local business group, San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg pushed back against criticism of his job-training program and "naysayers" of Project Marvel.
Howard Peak, a former two-term Mayor of San Antonio and namesake of the city’s greenway trails system, has died, according to a statement from Mayor Ron Nirenberg’s office.
District 10 Councilman Marc Whyte voiced strong opposition to efforts by several San Antonio City Council members to allocate city funds toward travel costs for abortion seekers.
City Hall and most municipal offices will be closed on Thursday and Friday in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. Public safety and emergency services will remain in operation, but some city services will operate.
About half the San Antonio City Council is pushing to find more money for the city’s Reproductive Justice Fund, which — this time — they want to actually fund travel costs for abortion seekers.
An outside attorney has forwarded a complaint against McKee-Rodriguez to the Ethics Review Board. Meanwhile, the District 2 Councilman has reluctantly approved the same project he was accused of unethically trying to derail.
One question remained above all others after Thursday’s unveiling of an entertainment district centered around Hemisfair and a new Spurs arena: Who’s paying?
Several Spurs fans spoke to KSAT on Thursday hours after the City of San Antonio released its proposal for a new basketball arena and entertainment district.
After more than a year of debates and a lawsuit, San Antonio City Council voted to approve the Reproductive Justice Fund. The fund won't cover travel costs for out-of-state abortions.
A new San Antonio Spurs arena could take center court of a proposed downtown sports and entertainment district around Hemisfair.
The San Antonio Independent School District is trying to run up the score in a land deal with the San Antonio Missions and its partners for a 2.3-acre parking lot. "
Two sports franchises and two possible downtown San Antonio stadiums will be in the spotlight again this week during public meetings.
A new San Antonio Spurs arena will become an official discussion topic during a city council meeting next week.
Tenants searching for an apartment in New York City have long been forced to pay thousands of dollars to real estate brokers.
Bexar County Precinct 3 Commissioner Grant Moody has issued his support — and assumed a spot in the campaign — for a candidate vying for the soon-to-be-open City Council District 9 seat.
San Antonio City Council approved a proposed merging ordinance for the city’s two existing climate advisory committees, setting in motion a singular team to oversee sustainability efforts.
City Council District 1 held a community forum Thursday night to talk about the policy, but it didn't go as planned.
Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez has been hit with an ethics complaint over an attempt last month to mislead a semi-truck dealer and cut off its plan for a new dealership at the knees. But the complaint isn’t coming from the truck dealer, whose representative said they would “never pursue anything like this.”
San Antonio’s Intergovernmental Relations Committee held a briefing this week on the city’s legislative program, which addresses city priorities and interests at the federal level for next year’s congressional session
City Council is grappling with how quickly to phase out horse-drawn carriages in downtown San Antonio.
San Antonio City Council approved an ordinance and funding reallocation to begin the process of creating a significant thoroughfare project aimed at connecting portions of the city’s major manufacturers across the South Side.
San Antonio’s business community has spent two-and-a-half times more than the local firefighter union in the fight over caps on the city manager’s tenure and salary.
The University of Texas at San Antonio’s Center for Public Opinion Research (CPOR) polled likely voters in September and October about the six proposed city charter amendments on the Nov. 5 ballot. However, it recorded big shifts in voter’s opinion, depending whether it used plain language to describe the amendments or the exact ballot language.
Big decisions are made on behalf of San Antonians inside City Hall. However, in the early 1970s, Rosie Castro said the people in charge didn’t reflect the entire city.
The University of Texas at San Antonio Center for Public Opinion Research is announcing the results of its latest voter survey on Thursday at 11 a.m.
All six proposed San Antonio Charter Amendments, including a repeal of caps on the city manager’s pay and tenure, held approval to pass.
Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez pushed to annex the property near I-10 and Loop 1604 into the city limits without the zoning Doggett Freightliner was seeking and effectively killed its plans.
Less than a year after it was sued by anti-abortion groups, the City of San Antonio revealed its Reproductive Justice Fund probably won’t help women access abortion care after all.
A full budget year after they approved it, the San Antonio City Council is poised to discuss what the city’s controversial Reproductive Justice Fund will cover.
A 2.3-acre piece of land on Camaron Street near San Pedro Creek Park and West Martin Street is just one point of contention for neighbors as the San Antonio Missions downtown baseball stadium debate continues.
Southwest Airlines failed to stop a new lease agreement that would keep it out of the new terminal being built at San Antonio International Airport.
Former District 10 Councilman Clayton Perry, who paused his political career after a drunken hit-and-run incident, has confirmed he will return to run for mayor in San Antonio’s 2025 election.
The San Antonio Professional Firefighters Association is considering whether to turn its political influence hose on a new charter amendment campaign to undo city manager caps.
Council members on the Intergovernmental Relations Committee want the city's state legislative priorities to more explicitly include support for the LGBTQ community.
A political action committee led by big names from the San Antonio business community plans to spend more than $1 million in support of a slate of proposed changes to the city charter.
Two controversial, proposed San Antonio charter amendments could face an uphill climb, judging by a recent poll.
The San Antonio Philharmonic, which was born from the ashes of the San Antonio Symphony in 2022 with some of the same musicians, saw the City of San Antonio and Bexar County set aside a combined $411,000 for its benefit.
San Antonio City Council formally passed an update on the city’s Complete Streets policy on Thursday, setting in motion a framework for street design that accounts for all users.
The San Antonio City Council ratified a new three-year contract with the San Antonio Professional Firefighters Association, marking the first time in 15 years the two sides have successfully collaborated on a deal.
San Antonio City Council approved a $3.96 billion budget Thursday morning that, despite its record size, includes several belt-tightening measures.
Five months after they agreed to a policy meant to soften the blow of future CPS Energy rate hikes, some members of the San Antonio City Council want to consider bypassing it.
Roughly 76% of the union membership voted on the contract, which passed with 97% approval. Only 35 of the 1,363 members who cast a ballot voted against it.
After several innings’ worth of public discussion, the San Antonio City Council gave the signal Thursday afternoon for a minor league baseball stadium project to round first base.
The proposal for a $160 million San Antonio Missions ballpark relies on also developing the surrounding area, including the low-cost Soap Factory Apartments. Thursday's vote would give the go-ahead to the broad strokes of a deal with the city, county, Missions ownership, and a downtown developer.
Planning efforts to address East Side and downtown connectivity could get a boost in funding support later this week, according to the agenda for Thursday’s San Antonio City Council meeting.
Residents of the 381-unit Soap Factory Apartments worry that affordable housing will be out of their grasp if a downtown baseball stadium project forces them out as planned.
San Antonio Police plan to test out a network of city and private security cameras in Downtown San Antonio, which could be monitored around the clock by both police and artificial intelligence.
More than 80 young people between 12 and 24 years old spent their Saturday speaking their minds with San Antonio city leaders.
The city planned for 700 cleanups this year. It passed 1,100 and is planning 1,300 for FY 2025.
While supporters like Mayor Ron Nirenberg say the ball park proposal is a fair deal with a group of local owners, a ball team’s worth of opponents came to a public hearing Thursday afternoon to object to the funding method, a lack of public input on the plan so far, and residents’ displacement from a low-cost apartment complex.
Over the past three years, a pot of federal COVID relief money has helped the City of San Antonio not only keep its budget balanced but also fund a variety of community programs. But that money is steadily dwindling, and both the city and the groups it has funded are preparing to go without it.
Having negotiated since late March, bargaining teams for the City of San Antonio and the San Antonio Professional Firefighters Association shook hands on a new contract just before midnight Saturday.
Facing a growing budget deficit, the City of San Antonio has proposed cutting or shifting around tens of millions of dollars over the next two years. But what does that look like for you?
As the city tries to balance its budget by cutting or moving around tens of millions of dollars in spending, it also has plans to raise fees and other small costs in everything from EMS transport, to concert tickets, to transit permits for dead people.
San Antonio International Airport hit a record number of passengers in July, with 1,032,610 flights in or out of the airport.
The five-member Transportation and Infrastructure Committee voted unanimously Monday to ask city staff to develop options for phasing out horse-drawn carriages within one to three years.
San Antonio is considering raising the false alarm fee for all unpermitted burglar and fire alarms to $250. The fees for permitted systems would not change.
The City of San Antonio is considering a $3.96 billion budget that, despite its record size, includes some attempts to back off spending.
In a rare hearing Wednesday night, the City of San Antonio’s Ethics Review Board ruled that Councilman Marc Whyte (D10) abused his position when he tried to get local law enforcement to respond to a local attorney’s home this spring.
San Antonio voters will be asked whether to raise council members’ pay by tens of thousands of dollars and to double the length of their current terms.
Paris is getting a colorful splash of Olympic creative spirit with nearly 30 vibrant street art pieces, popping up at bustling metro stations and airports and in front of city hall.
The San Antonio City Council appears ready to ask voters to raise their pay and extend their terms, though the finer points haven’t been hammered out yet.
Early this summer, Councilwoman Sukh Kaur filed the CCR to invest in Subsurface Utility Engineering and create a system to maintain and document records.
The Bexar County District Attorney’s Office has formally charged District 10 City Councilman Marc Whyte with DWI more than six months after his initial arrest on suspicion, according to online court records.
Courage sat down with KSAT recently to discuss his vision for the city, which largely includes continuing current initiatives and his track record as a council member.
Culebra Road has been described as one of the most dangerous roads in San Antonio. Now, the city will receive help from the U.S. government to improve a stretch of Culebra Road on the West Side.
The task force will review and update Chapter 11 on Fire Prevention and Chapter 16 on Licenses and Business Regulations to address used automotive recyclers and metal recycling entities.
