BREAKING NEWS
                                                
                    
                    - Elgin shows spark, still searching for first win
 - McDade High cuts football season short
 - DPS officers arrest thousands of undocumented immigrants
 - $4B data center underway
 - Looking out for bridge bats
 - Big Mama recognized for 40 spotless years
 - Courier welcomes area reporter
 - Driver in fatal school bus crash sentenced
 - Commissioners respond to heightened fire risk
 - Little is much
 - Bastrop County Jail Log
 - Tigers come up short against Hornets
 - Fairway gathering drives Elgin’s cancer fight
 - Wildcats crown Campuzano, McCoy Homecoming royalty
 - Rotten stench stirs community fight
 - EDC chair backed over lone dissent
 - Lady Cats fall in straight sets to Panthers
 - Wildcats tamed by Knights
 - Bears offense rolls over Cougars 60-11
 - Missing man found alive, pantless
 - Police department keeps the coffee coming
 - A new generation remembers
 - Developers sent back to drawing board
 - God’s bottom line
 - Volunteers halt repeat burn
 - Tamble to retire, wraps back-and-forth budget
 - City manager reviews success, previews big plans
 - Capital Highlights
 - Open government impacts our lives in big ways
 - Bastrop County Jail Log
 - I still remember both
 - Football player of the week
 - Bears’ offense mauls Lions, 70-55
 - Elgin shut out by Montgomery
 - Sheriff: Man killed by bull he raised
 - Familiar face to helm City Hall
 - District ratings climb in stricter state rubric
 - Century-old cemetery labeled endangered
 - Tamble to step away from Smithville
 - Budget, tax rate deadline nears
 - Abbott signs redistricting bill; lawsuit challenges it
 - Smithville OKs wastewater study, parks board
 - County tweaks budget, sheriff plan
 - Audit stall interrupts $20M bond vote
 - Austin looks below Bastrop County for water security
 - Coincidence?
 - The effect just wouldn’t be the same
 - Eagles stumble, extend streak in opener
 - Police put brakes on reckless driving
 - Wildcats struggle in season opener against Hawks
 
                                                            





    









