The Community Health Committee voted unanimously Monday to advance a proposal to forbid tobacco retail shops, including vape shops, from setting up business within 1,000 feet of a school, daycare, or institution of higher learning. The idea will now go to the zoning commission for consideration before a vote by the full city council.

San Antonio is preparing for a change in leadership across each council district with the May 3 election approaching.

Councilman John Courage (D9) applied for a place on the ballot shortly before the close of the filing deadline on Friday.

More than a year after the City of San Antonio set aside nearly $500,000 to purchase 12 baby boxes, not a single one has been installed. KSAT Investigates why there has been a delay in the project.

As a shooting at a North Side apartment complex began to subside early Thursday, state and local lawmakers took to social media to sound their condolences.

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.

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.

The San Antonio City Council’s Planning and Community Development Committee voted 4-0 on Friday morning to keep a one-year, $50,000 pilot program to cover pet deposits for low-income residents from moving forward.

District 9 City Councilman John Courage has dropped out of the race for San Antonio mayor in 2025.

Hundreds of people came out to the Alamodome on Sunday to trade in their guns for money.

A new San Antonio Spurs arena could take center court of a proposed downtown sports and entertainment district around Hemisfair.

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.

The City of San Antonio District 9 is set to host another voluntary weapons exchange drive-thru event later this month.

The City of San Antonio provided an update on construction efforts underway on the North Side to connect East Sonterra Boulevard to North Loop 1604.

Residents have been dealing with the issue for more than six years, but now, city crews are constructing a solution for homes on Encino Crown and Encino Summit.

One San Antonio resident on Encino Crown said her backyard turns into a waterfall almost every time it rains.

Former Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos announced Tuesday that he is running for mayor of San Antonio in the 2025 election.

After back-and-forth discussions during a Thursday city council meeting, the vote to impose a proposed curfew for Hemisfair Park was shelved.

Early this summer, Councilwoman Sukh Kaur filed the CCR to invest in Subsurface Utility Engineering and create a system to maintain and document 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.

San Antonio is raising permit fees and cracking down on unlicensed short-term rentals, on platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo.

On Monday, the city council heard about an audit report finding that between October 2021 and September 2023, almost 10 percent, or 117 of SAPD's kits, went past that 30 days. Changes have already been made.

The San Antonio Police Department has fired an officer accused of taking weapons and ammunition during a city councilman-sponsored gun buyback event outside the Alamodome late last year, discipline records obtained by KSAT Investigates show.

District 8 Councilman Manny Pelaez announced his campaign for mayor Tuesday on social media.

A Charter Review Commission is considering whether to adjust council members' salaries, though voters would have the final say.

Some pro-Palestinian protestors have been turning up the heat on San Antonio City Council members with whom they are angry for not passing a ceasefire resolution regarding the Israel-Hamas War.

Courage’s announcement is the first significant campaign event in the 2025 race for mayor.

Whyte asked his fellow councilmembers to pass the censure; others spoke about holding council to a higher standard

Some property owners in South Bexar County were able to temporarily avoid being annexed into San Antonio when the city came calling a decade ago. But now, the agreements they signed are expiring.

The city's first-ever gun buyback event led to people exchanging more than 900 weapons for H-E-B gift cards, according to San Antonio Councilman John Courage.

People will be able to exchange as many as 20 unloaded weapons for H-E-B gift cards at the drive-thru event at Alamodome Parking Lot B between 12-5 p.m. on Sunday.

The Peace Initiative gathers local organizations against gun violence by honoring victims killed.

San Antonio District 9 Councilman John Courage is requesting help funding a gun buyback program on Nov. 19, which he says will be the city’s first..

People can bring as many as 20 unloaded weapons to the Alamodome parking lot on Nov. 19 and, depending on the condition and type of firearm, receive between $50 and $300 worth of gift cards per weapon.

The city council passed the $3.7 billion spending plan for fiscal year 2024 Thursday morning in a 10-0-1 vote. It will take effect Oct. 1 at the beginning of the 2024 fiscal year.

The City of San Antonio plans to take advantage of a change to state law that will allow parents to surrender their newborn babies in special, alarmed boxes at fire stations and other designated spots.

The San Antonio City Council awarded Amstar, Inc. a $3.5 million contract for repairing the historic retaining walls, stabilizing the pump house, and reconstructing the grand stair case. However, the city’s plans to cut down dozens of trees in the process has draw sharp criticism.

The San Antonio City Council declined Wells Fargo’s card Thursday as it voted 7-4 to drop the multinational banking giant from a proposed pool of underwriters.

The San Antonio City Council delayed a routine vote on Thursday after its members split on whether to do business with Wells Fargo because of its recent scandal and penalty-plagued record.

7 Council incumbents were re-elected, including one by a razor thin margin

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).

City leaders are pushing for “baby boxes”. Although similar to the Safe Haven or Baby Moses Law, this proposal would allow parents in crisis to give up their child anonymously.

Radar Feedback Signs have been installed near Johnson High School to help curb speeding.

District 9 Councilman John Courage said messages of hate targeting the Jewish community and transgender individuals were found in several neighborhoods in the last week.

The San Antonio City Council amended the city’s noise ordinances on Thursday to limit the hours during which construction crews can do any exterior building construction work, including demolition and excavation. The council also approved more stringent penalties for violations.

The City of San Antonio is looking at two different ordinances that deal with noise made by construction companies and music venues or residential noise complaints.

The City of San Antonio’s Train for Jobs SA program has struggled to meet its promised results, but there’s hope for a voter-approved program set to begin in the spring.

As CPS Energy pushes for city council approval of a new rate hike, the utility’s interim CEO doesn’t expect to win over many of its customers.

Council members’ concerns over the process for appointing trustees to the city’s water and utilities spurred lengthy discussions Thursday, but ultimately weren’t enough to derail the newest SAWS and CPS Energy board appointments.

San Antonio and Bexar County officials are considering imposing a vaccine mandate on city and county employees after similar moves were taken in California and New York City.

Because there’s already a $5,000 minimum for its current exemption, city staff say boosting the homestead exemption to 5% would only save the average San Antonio homeowner with a $195,730 home an extra $27 each year.

The council members on the San Antonio Housing Authority Public Facilities Corporation Board delayed a vote on financing during a Tuesday meeting that would have allowed the “Friedrich Lofts” project to move forward. The project would create 358 units of studio, single-bedroom, and two-bedroom apartments in a non-historic portion of the Friedrich Complex on East Commerce and Olive Street.

With all the votes counted, the following candidates have been declared winners in Districts 1, 2, 3, 5 and 9, respectively: Mario Bravo, Jalen McKee-Rodriguez, Phyllis Viagran, Teri Castillo and John Courage.

John Courage and Patrick Von Dohlen will once again square off on Saturday in a runoff election for the District 9 council seat.

Councilmember John Courage faces four challengers in the race for San Antonio City Council District 9.

SAN ANTONIO – With all Texans 50 years old and over now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, the pool of people anxiously looking for appointments has grown larger. On Tuesday, one alternative will come up again - the creation of a vaccine registry or waitlist. The city council’s Community Health and Equity Committee is scheduled to meet at 3 p.m. Tuesday. While a vaccine waitlist is not on the official agenda, it is expected to be discussed. The District 9 councilman brought up the registry idea at least twice in February city council meetings.

San Antonio – The San Antonio City Council has sent a proposed charter change to voters, which could offer more flexibility in what kind of projects the city can fund with bond money. The city council voted 10-1 Thursday to add the proposal onto the May 1 ballot for voter approval. Ad“There may be still other state laws or federal laws that govern what we can do on specific projects,” City Attorney Andy Segovia said. Perry also criticized the way the proposed amendment was brought to the city council. Amendments added to the ballot by the city council are typically considered by a mayor-appointed charter review commissionAdWhile there was no commission this year, a 2018 Charter Review Commission had previously considered changing the charter language surrounding the use of bond dollars, at Nirenberg’s request.

Courage used the opportunity to once again call for a citywide, central registry for which residents could sign up and be notified when it’s their turn to get the shot. Currently, residents must try to call or register online at each of the individual vaccine providers whenever new doses become available. A central registry, Courage argued, would help residents feel secure in the knowledge they’d eventually be in line to get vaccinated. Ad“We need to be able to reassure them that they will be contacted by call or email when their time comes to receive the vaccine. They’ll know where to go, they’ll know when to go and what to be prepared for when they get there,” Courage said.

SAN ANTONIO – With the Cenotaph relocation apparently off the table, San Antonio City Council members discussed options forward for the $400 million Alamo Plan. With the monument’s relocation a “crucial” part of the overall plan, city staff members say plans or timelines need to be changed. “We’re going to have to redo redesign because that Cenotaph is not moving,” City Manager Erik Walsh told council members. In its entirety, the Alamo Plan includes repairs to original structures, a redesign of the plaza and a museum. Following the nearly two-hour public discussion, council members spent close to another hour in a closed executive session but took no official action.

SAN ANTONIO – The San Antonio City Council passed a $2.9 billion budget Thursday that makes few changes to the San Antonio Police Department, over the strong objection of activists. The San Antonio Police Department’s general fund budget will increase more than $7 million over the FY 2020 budget to roughly $486.5 million, largely due to a scheduled 5% pay increase for officers. As police funding discussions take place in San Antonio and cities around the state, Gov. The San Antonio Police Officers' Association released a statement from its president Mike Helle in support of the budget vote, too. “The City Council, and the people of San Antonio, should make no mistake: this ‘repeal’ movement is just one more way to ‘defund police!’” Helle wrote in the statement.

SAN ANTONIO Two San Antonio City Council members were the recipients of anger for their positions over the Black Lives Matter movement and other recent controversial issues that have recently surfaced during city meetings. I believe that Black lives matter. I believed Black lives mattered before I ever heard the term Black lives matter. I will continue to believe Black lives matter. District 10 Councilman Clayton Perry also sparked some anger from people during that June meeting, when he did not raise his fist in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.

SAN ANTONIO – As a new decade begins, City Hall reporter Garrett Brnger has been talking with members of the San Antonio City Council about their New Year's resolutions. District 9 Councilman John Courage said he has resolved to listen to his constituents. To see more resolutions from other San Antonio City Council members, click here.