U.S. Army North officially ended operations at Fort Sam Houston on Wednesday after the Army inactivated the command as part of a Defense Department reorganization that consolidates multiple commands into a new Western Hemisphere Command headquartered at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Victor Wembanyama has signed a five-year, $252 million contract extension with the San Antonio Spurs, opting against a supermax deal that would have paid about $51 million more and giving the team additional salary cap flexibility for future roster moves.
Cleanup efforts are underway after a tornado and severe storms caused significant damage across northwest San Antonio on Wednesday, city officials said.
A tornado damaged parts of northwest San Antonio on Wednesday, tearing roofs from buildings, toppling trees and damaging businesses, but no injuries were reported, city officials said.
More than 100 people gathered at San Antonio City Hall on Friday before marching through downtown to demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the 52-year-old Mexican national fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent during an enforcement operation in Houston earlier this week.
A task force created by Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones released a report Wednesday recommending nine strategies to increase voter participation in San Antonio and Bexar County through year-round civic engagement efforts.
San Antonio officials said some neighborhoods experience temperatures more than 10 degrees higher than other parts of the city and are expanding heat mitigation efforts to reduce those disparities as periods of extreme heat become more frequent.
James Branch, chief of staff to San Antonio District 7 Councilwoman Marina Alderete Gavito, left City Hall on Monday after Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones publicly identified him as a city employee who had access to information related to her security detail during an internal leak investigation.
A city commission approved plans for a shopping center on a former commercial fueling station in downtown San Antonio, even as District 1 Councilwoman Sukh Kaur continued efforts to have the property donated to the city’s Parks Department.
The City of San Antonio’s Office of Emergency Management is seeking public feedback through July 31 to help update the city’s Hazard Mitigation Plan and strengthen future disaster preparedness efforts.