Comal County added 67 COVID-19 cases on Tuesday morning with a positivity rate — the percentage of tests with a positive result — now at 15.44%.

With social distancing requirements relaxed and businesses reopening, the city of New Braunfels saw an overall increase of about $80,000, or 2.9%, in sales taxes received in July compared to the same month last year.

Despite the resurgence of COVID-19 in many Texas areas, Tuesday’s primary runoff elections could see higher than normal turnouts in some places and far less than others.

Restaurants, car dealers, medical facilities, contractors, construction companies, nonprofit organizations and transportation companies were among New Braunfels businesses receiving funds under a federal program designed to save jobs during the coronavirus pandemic.

Comal County's COVID-19 death toll now stands at 29, with officials announcing seven new deaths on Monday morning.

A San Antonio man whose speeding vehicle missed a turn was broadsided by another vehicle Saturday night, killing him and injuring six members of a New Braunfels family, police said.

Postal Annex cut the ribbon on a new location at Freiheit Village in New Braunfels on Thursday.

Comal County Elections Administrator Cynthia Jaqua said in-person early voting totals for the July 14 party primary runoffs were running close to turnouts in 2016 and 2018.

This summer could wind up as one of the hottest on record, joining 1994, 2000, 2009, 2011 and last year with multiple consecutive days of 100-degree heat.

With Texas continuing to break records for new coronavirus deaths and hospitalizations this week, Gov. Greg Abbott reiterated Friday afternoon that things will continue to get worse. And if people keep flouting his new statewide mask mandate, he said, the next step could be another economic …

The Texas Republican Party continues to battle Houston officials who canceled their in-person statewide convention due to COVID-19, but Comal County’s GOP chair said she’s intent on leading local delegates to the three-day event.

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First responders searching Canyon Lake on Thursday recovered the body of 25-year-old man who was presumed drowned he was last seen diving off a boat Saturday afternoon.

With insufficient rainfall, consistent hot temperatures and increased water usage, New Braunfels will enter Stage 1 drought restrictions on Monday, New Braunfels Utilities officials said.

Comal County Commissioners on Thursday unanimously approved a ban on outdoor burning in unincorporated county areas beginning at 6 a.m. Friday.

The agenda of most 8-year-olds during the sweltering summer months includes sleeping in and spending plenty of time in the living room.

Seguin and Guadalupe County are making way for an instant jolt to their economies.

New Braunfels Independent School District held a district wide Zoom teleconference Wednesday, the first in a series of weekly sessions to keep parents abreast of planning for the upcoming school year.

South Texas Blood & Tissue Center provides free COVID-19 antibody testing for all blood donations until Aug. 31. 

Though still littered with potential hazards, the road map to the return of highschool athletics continued to take shape Wednesday following the University Interscholastic League’s release of new guidelines for summer workouts and the upcoming 2020-21 school year.

Officials have confirmed 55 more COVID-19 cases in Guadalupe County. 

It’s seemed like years since San Antonio Street’s Comal River bridge closed to vehicular and foot traffic. But after less than a year, city residents will see it reopen next week.

New Braunfels and Comal County law enforcement officials said the July 4 holiday weekend resulted in fewer calls and arrests — and neither issuing citations for violations of virus orders.

Comal County Commissioners will again consider a burn ban in regular session before holding a workshop on 2021 budget requests when they meet on Thursday. 

It could be days before authorities recover the body of a man presumed drowned in Canyon Lake over the weekend.

For the second straight day, search efforts failed to recover the body of a 25-year-old man who authorities believe drowned in Canyon Lake on Saturday.

The search to recover the body of a 25-year-old man who authorities presumed drowned in Canyon Lake on Saturday continued into the evening hours on Sunday.

Darkness suspended the search for a 25-year-old man who first responders believed drowned in Canyon Lake on Saturday.

New Braunfels city officials have temporarily closed the Westside Community Center after an employee tested positive for COVID-19.

A man in his 70s was Guadalupe County’s second COVID-19-related death.

New Braunfels firefighters and equipment will temporarily relocate to New Braunfels Utilities’ Headwaters at the Comal facility this month to allow for construction of a new $6.7 million fire station on Hanz Drive.

New Braunfels water customers could see first stage watering restrictions go into effect early next week.

Comal County Commissioners took no action on issuing a burn ban on Thursday.

Early voting for the July 14 party primary runoffs will not be held at polls in Comal and Guadalupe counties, which will break for the July 4 holidays Friday and Saturday and resume on Sunday.

For those who saw fire at the former mill property in New Braunfels on Wednesday, everything’s okay.

The folks at the Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch need your help.

New Braunfels Independent School District trustees approved a $104.196 million overall budget for 2020-21 during their regular monthly meeting on Monday. 

The 54th Annual Texas Legislative Conference, rescheduled for September, will take on a new look. 

An apparent conflict between two New Braunfels men early Wednesday resulted in gunfire that sent one of them to a hospital and another to jail, police said.

Days into the start of fireworks sales for the July 4 holiday, Comal County Commissioners will consider issuing a burn ban when they meet in regular weekly session on Thursday.

As the numbers of coronavirus cases rise, hospitals are finding themselves overwhelmed with patients.

Except for police, fire and emergency services personnel, most city and county offices and services will close Friday in observance of Independence Day on Saturday.

Comal Independent School District trustees approved a $300 million budget for 2020-21 during its final session of the school year last Thursday.

Members of the New Braunfels City Council on Monday approved $600,000 in grant awards to various arts and heritage organizations in the city.

No definitive answer has been given as to whether  stadium lights will be illuminated as usual during Friday nights this fall.

Comal County now has 25 people hospitalized with COVID-19 and its positivity rate eclipsed the 10% mark, health officials said Tuesday morning.

Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday pulled the reins on Texas’ reopening, closing bars and river outfitters, reducing restaurant capacity from 75% down to 50%, and banning outdoor gatherings of more than 100 people. Over the weekend smaller crowds still managed to find a way to float New Braunfels' r…

Gunfire erupted in a neighborhood late Saturday evening, with several shots striking a residence attached to a business and vehicle parked nearby, police said.

New Braunfels police and fire units responded to a vehicle fire in a retail shopping center parking on the city’s south end on Monday.