NEW BRAUNFELS — With a county jail that feels like it’s shrinking daily, prisoners are finding space cramped, and so is everyone else in the sheriff’s office.

NEW BRAUNFELS — Nine months after leaving for Iraq, the New Braunfels’ Army National Guard unit is due home this morning.

NEW BRAUNFELS — Hundreds of New Braunfels-area residents showed up Thursday morning for a ribbon-cutting and unveiling party for the city’s new HEB store.

NEW BRAUNFELS — New Braunfels resident David Will asked New Braunfels Utilities trustees on Thursday to stop adding fluoride to the city’s water.

Comal County could pay firm six figures in hopes of recouping ‘millions’ in lawsuit

Cleon J. Blankenbeker, LTC USAF (Ret.), passed away Wednesday, July 28, 2010.

Janice Ann Ligon, 68, died on July 25, 2010. She was born on April 23, 1942, in New Orleans, La., to Kenneth and Doris Roth.

For several years, Comal Independent School District has required volunteers to go through an annual Department of Public Safety background check, and the process will be available online starting wit

SAN ANTONIO — The DPS Driver License Office at 6502 South New Braunfels Ave. in San Antonio will be closed Aug. 5 for an event celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Department of Public Safety.

Weather permitting, the Texas Department of Transportation announces the following road closures.

By Bryan Shettig The Herald-Zeitung

NEW BRAUNFELS — U.S. marshals looking for a man in New Braunfels with an outstanding warrant were led on a chase when the man fled. They had not found him as of Thursday evening.

Three charities will be on the receiving end of donations from Saturday’s annual Canyon Lake barbecue and chili cook-off.

The Shirley Sherrod Story started innocently. It was a beautiful anecdote of redemption and personal growth, which she related last year at a meeting of the Georgia NAACP.

When Kyle “Tugboat” Reynolds saw a New Braunfels policeman struggling in the middle of the street with an intoxicated man Saturday afternoon, he didn’t think twice about lending a hand to the ma