Texas

BUDA, Texas - The Buda Economic Development Corporation celebrated 25 years of helping grow the local economy with a big gift to the whole community. The largest wiener dog in the state was unveiled in Buda City Park. Designed and fabricated by Texas public art studio Art Seen Alliance, the...

The couple across the street from an 11-year-old blue heeler mix named Oscar were so afraid of him that each carried a gun to their own mailbox, the wife testified. The man next door saw them loose "at least every other day." On June 3, 2014, with the dog's owners away on vacation, Oscar got through an open gate and bit a woman walking by with a friend. A Parker County jury awarded her $695,000, and a Texas appeals court affirmed.

On October 8, Texas Insurance Commissioner Amanda Crawford announced that home and auto insurance rates are “trending down for many Texans” — an encouraging headline after three years of double-digit increases that pushed average homeowners premiums up 63%. What her press release did not mention is that the state’s largest home insurer is raising rates on more Texas policyholders than every company filing decreases combined.

A couple who kept a home and grazed cattle on 126 acres northwest of Inez, in Victoria County, watched their land flood after the man developing a subdivision next door built a dam and berms. He admitted he kept "building [the berms] up" from 2016 on, even though he knew their land was flooding. His own employee testified the developer told him to fill ditches to "really flood them out." A jury found against him, and a Texas court ordered the dam and berms removed.

In August, SeaWorld San Antonio completed its final mission to relocate a group of beluga whales from a closed marine park in Canada and were no longer able to be cared for there.

Hot and humid weather is expected for much of the week, but a significant fall cold front could drop temps to the 40s and 50s

Two brothers bought a Harris County house together in early 2008, and a 2010 fire left it unlivable. Their insurer, American Risk Insurance Company, Inc., sent a fire expert, whose lab tests found petroleum distillate in three of the four places sampled. None of those three places had burned. The one sample from a spot that did burn came back negative.

H-E-B has named the winners of its 13th annual Quest for Texas Best competition, with five small businesses sharing $110,000 in cash prizes. Sol Dias Ice Cream of Haltom City, near Fort Worth, took the $50,000 grand prize, earning the title of “Texas Best” and placement on H-E-B shelves.

HAYS COUNTY, Texas – A Hays County wedding venue is locked in a legal battle with a woman whose fiancé died months before their wedding, after the venue refused to return nearly $16,000 the couple had paid and then countersued the surviving fiancée this summer for breach of contract, court records obtained by KSAT Investigates show.

It's a severe weather trifecta with heavy rain, hail risks and the possibility of a tornado.