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Ryan Anderson, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Sciences at Texas State University, and Bradley Borges, a senior lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Sciences, have received a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to promote STEM-based careers in the welding industry among high school students.

The Youth Service Bureau– a local after school and summer program that provides free opportunities for youth from ages 11 to 17–is hoping to recruit additional kids for the program.

A man was taken into custody late Monday by members of the San Marcos Police Department SWAT unit following a call at approximately 4:30 p.m. to the department that an individual had been shot in the vicinity of an apartment complex on El Rio Street.

DEAR ABBY: This is in response to “Love My Cheap Phone” (Aug. 28). As a millennial who has worked in retail my whole adult life, I’m tired of the excuse that the older generation can’t or won’t use smartphones.

Santa Claus most often wears a suit of red, but in San Marcos, children love it when he is dressed in blue.

Texas lawmakers are returning home for Thanksgiving as uncertainty looms over Gov. Greg Abbott’s yearlong push for school vouchers, which the House rejected Friday in its most direct vote on the issue yet.

One of this nation’s first noted photographers, Edward Curtis, spent much of his career creating images that today are recognized as an attempt to create visual documentation of Native Americans.

The small community station heard around the world is ringing its holiday bells loudly this year.

Texas added nearly 1.6 million people between 2020 and Jan. 1, with the Austin region–the state’s fastest-growing metro area with 7.2% growth–drawing in the most new residents, according to new population data by the Texas Demographic Center. But Fort Worth added more residents–48,542– than any other city.

Texas State welcomes new mounted patrol units

Two children are home safe thanks to the successful operation of the Amber Alert.

If you listen to pollsters and politicians, or consume heavy doses of social media and cable-TV news, you might come away thinking the nation is in a collective bad mood. We’re said to be irritable, even hostile.