A woman filed a lawsuit on Aug. 27 with the federal district court in Austin against the city of Giddings and a former Giddings police officer over the officer suggesting she could get out of a ... Read More

BASTROP, Texas - A man is in custody after firing an AR-15 from his vehicle at other vehicles in the parking lot of a Home Depot in Bastrop on Wednesday. The Bastrop Police Department said officers ... Read More

The Texas A&M Forest Service said the fire is at Bastrop State Park near southeast Highway 21 and South Sore Road. Read More

The Elgin Courier - serves Elgin, Texas, and wider Bastrop County. Founded by Miles Hill, the paper has been published weekly since 1890 ... Read More

A Tesla driver crashed into a Nissan Sentra on Saturday along State Hwy 71, according to the Texas Highway Patrol. Read More

Currently, the Highway 290 Toll Road ends just before reaching Manor. On Monday, Bastrop County Commissioners approved an agreement with the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority (CTRMA ... Read More

BASTROP, Texas - A woman was struck and killed by a vehicle on SH 71 in Bastrop on Saturday morning. The Bastrop Police Department says on Sept. 21, around 11:29 a.m., officers were dispatched to the ... Read More

FM-523 northbound and southbound from Levee Road / CR 690 to 2527 Bastrop Street CR 807 in Oyster Creek SH-6 westbound at IH-45 in La Marque / Bayou Vista / Texas City IH-610 South Loop eastbound ... Read More

Hays County court issued a warrant to arrest FJM Concrete LLC owner, Francisco Martinez Jr., for an unpaid ticket for employing an unlicensed driver in 2021. Read More

BASTROP, Texas (AP) - A school bus with more than 40 prekindergarten students returning from a field trip collided with a concrete truck and rolled over Friday in Texas, killing two people, ... Read More

TEXAS, USA - Hays CISD said the school bus involved in a crash in Bastrop County that killed a 5-year-old boy and injured dozens of other students and adults was not equipped with seatbelts ... Read More

Hector Campos said Friday he received a phone call that every parent dreads. '?[It was] the worst feeling in the world,'? Campos said. '?You never think you would get one, ... Read More

LLANO COUNTY, Texas - One person was killed in a deadly crash in Llano County, Texas DPS said. DPS said on Nov. 26, troopers responded to a deadly crash on SH-71 in Llano County. Read More

AUSTIN (KXAN) - The Austin Police Department has identified the victim of a deadly crash in September in southeast Austin. On Sept. 30, first responders were called to a single-vehicle crash on ... Read More

BASTROP COUNTY, Texas - The Texas Department of Public Safety has identified the three people who were killed after a semi reportedly failed to yield to their vehicle while traveling on US 290 ... Read More

ELGIN, Texas (KXAN) - A driver died in a major crash that shut down Highway 290 in Bastrop County at FM 696 Tuesday morning. The highway has reopened. Joseph Osborne, 24, of McDade, was ... Read More