Gillespie County bars will have to close and businesses now operating at 75% were ordered to scale back to 50% capacity beginning at 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, County Judge Mark Stroeher announced after an order by Texas Governor Greg Abbott. Under Abbott’s Executive Order GA-32, which was issued on Oct. 7...

 Nurses at Hill Country Memorial Hospital gave some welcomed and historic Christmas gifts on Thursday morning when they administered the first of 700 Moderna vaccines received. This was Fredericksburg’s first shipment of the new vaccines to help build immunity to COVID-19. The first shipment arrived...

Hill Country Memorial Hospital had its highest number of coronavirus patients last week at 12, before its patient count lowered to seven by Tuesday. Last week, healthcare officials voiced concern on a call about rising case numbers and positivity case count. Dr. Jim Partin, chief medical officer for...

While the area’s hospitalizations and positive testing rate has subsided somewhat (16% down to 12% positive tests), health officials are still concern...

An early morning fire on Sunday at a local apartment complex claimed the lives of two Fredericksburg High School students. Fredericksburg Fire Departm...

Fredericksburg’s two recent testing events at Pioneer Pavilion in Lady Bird Johnson Municipal Park sent local positive COVID-19 cases skyrocketing. Th...