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There were 9,999 pieces of legislation filed between the House and Senate during the recently wrapped-up 87th Texas Legislative Session. According to Texas Legislature Online and confirmed by the Governor's office, Abbott signed 1,034, vetoed 20 and allowed 105 to become law without his signature. One of the bills the governor vetoed is Senate Bill 474, known as the Safe Outdoor Dogs Act, which was designed to expand animal cruelty […]

Two more Kerr County residents have died due to COVID-19 complications, according to Kerr County Emergency Management Coordinator Dub Thomas. "The pair of deaths of permanent Kerr County residents were both reported on June 16 - one posted by the Texas Department of State Health Services (which usually means the death occurred outside the county) and the other posted by Peterson Regional Medical Center here in Kerrville," Thomas said. These […]

The City of Kerrville and Schreiner University are excited to announce the opening of the approximately one-mile River Trail extension from G Street to Schreiner University and want to welcome citizens and visitors alike to begin enjoying it. The official unveiling occurred over the weekend and included the Trailhead Beer Garden on the campus grounds. The City of Kerrville collaborated with Schreiner University and the Economic Improvement Corporation (EIC) for […]

A second suspect has been arrested in connection with the mass shooting that killed one and injured 13 others in downtown Austin's Sixth Street early Saturday morning. Jeremiah Roshaun Leland James Tabb, 17, was arrested Monday without incident in Killeen while enrolled in a summer school class at Harker Heights High School, according to a press release. Tabb is being charged with aggravated assault, according to the Austin Police Department. […]

Kerr County officials are wanting to get the word out that youths aged 12 years and older in Kerr County can join adults in receiving a free COVID-19 vaccine during a planned Tuesday, June 15 clinic. All three FDA authorized vaccines - the two shot Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and the one-shot Janssen vaccine - will be available during the event which will be held at the Barnett Chapel United […]

The Kerr Regional History Center will begin hosting "Cartoon Texas: One Hundred Years of Cartoon Art in the Lone Star State. The exhibition was developed by Maury Forman and Robert A. Calvert for the Center for Texas Studies at the University of North Texas with support from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The cartoon works will be representative of several colorful political campaigns […]

The Kerr County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigations Division in conjunction with the Kerrville Police Department and the Texas Attorney General's Office Child Exploitation Unit assisted with a felony warrant service in Kerrville on June 10, in which 29-year old Christopher Allen Cuellar, of Kerrville, was arrested in the 100 block of Westminster Avenue. Cuellar was the subject of an investigation conducted by the Texas Attorney General's Office regarding possessing and […]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced Thursday that Texas will build its own border wall and also arrest people crossing the border illegally next week. In a Border Security Summit Thursday afternoon in Del Rio, Abbott said he has plans to build a larger border wall and that he's going to build border barriers that will allow the state to arrest people crossing the border illegally and trespassing on private property. […]

Governor Greg Abbott is hosting a summit to discuss border security with law enforcement officials and other stakeholders from around the state Thursday at 5 p.m. in Del Rio. The summit is expected to include sheriffs, police chiefs, county judges, mayors and landowners who will be discussing "collaborative strategies between state government, local city and county officials, law enforcement and landowners hoping to secure border communities", according to a press […]