Caldwell County News

Hundreds of people waving American flags circled the courthouse square in Lockhart Wednesday afternoon to welcome home a man many consider a hero.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has published draft flood risk maps of communities in Caldwell County, Texas.

Sales are permitted in parts of town in Guadalupe Co.; ballot measure would extend sales to entire city.

Department of Public Safety officers and Caldwell County Sheriff's deputies were on the scene a fatal crash that closed Highway 21 between High Road and Rhode Road south of Niederwald after 6:30 a.m. today.

About 80 people attended an organizational meeting for an $800,000 water quality study of Geronimo and Alligator creeks Tuesday night.

A massive master-planned community taking shape near Lockhart is poised to become one of the Austin area's largest developments.

Dallas and Canadian developers are proposing a development that could include thousands of homes and apartments and several million square feet of office, retail and industrial space in the Lockhart area.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED AN * URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR... NORTHERN BEXAR COUNTY... WEST CENTRAL CALDWELL COUNTY... COMAL COUNTY... NORTHWESTERN GUADALUPE COUNTY... SOUTHERN HAYS COUNTY... * UNTIL 1115 PM CDT.

The Caldwell County Historical Commission is hosting its sixth annual "Speaking of the Dead - Night Ramblings in a Texas Graveyard" later this month.

Two people killed in a head-on crash on U.S. 183 in Caldwell County were identified Friday as a San Antonio woman and a Luling man.

A father accused of abusing two of his sons by performing circumcisions when they were infants took the stand in his own defense Wednesday morning.

UPDATE 3:45 p.m.: DPS has confirmed that the man involved in a fatal wreck Thursday morning on U.S. 183 about three miles north of Lockhart was 20-year-old Bobby White Jr.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR... SOUTHEASTERN CALDWELL COUNTY... SOUTHWESTERN FAYETTE COUNTY... NORTHEASTERN GONZALES COUNTY... NORTHERN LAVACA COUNTY... * UNTIL 200 AM CDT.

Police: Caregiver stole from man A Lockhart woman who had cared for an elderly Austin couple since 2007 is accused of stealing close to $6,000 from their bank account, police say.

Each week hundreds of people call or visit the San Marcos Public Library to find information.

Some people have second thoughts about diving into their favorite watering hole in San Marcos, after the city closed 'Dog Beach' due to high bacteria counts.

A study released Wednesday found high breast cancer mortality and low early detection rates among African American, Hispanic and rural women in five Central Texas counties.

A 2-year-old yellow Labrador mix is recovering at a Kansas City shelter after being shot four times.

This summer, incensed by a ruling in a child-custody case involving his granddaughter, 69-year-old Don Bandelman followed the judge into a public courthouse restroom and berated him as "a fool," court records show.

Residents of Martindale will soon have the opportunity to make their vehicles less attractive to thieves.