Come summer, people flock to the Comal River in New Braunfels like bees to honey. They are drawn to its clear water, shady banks, and gentle, meandering course that invites the incomparable pleasure of floating in an inner tube. What better way to spend a hot day than to lean back, glide downstream, and watch the clouds drift by?

With time running out to either find a way to balance the county's 2026-2027 budget or dip into reserves, more bad news surfaced July 28 in a special meeting of commissioners court. Already $1,394,300.82 in the red, the county will need to budget a quarter-million dollars to pay for legal costs related to the six courthouse restoration indictments that were tossed out for Lack of Probable Cause. Fannin County Judge Newt Cunningham admitted that the $250,000 taxpayers will have to pony up because of the indictments is a "conservative" estimate. Fannin County had hoped that Texas Association of Counties (TAC) would represent it in this lawsuit, but at the moment TAC is denying coverage because in this situation it is member-against-member.

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service‘s Healthy Lawns and Healthy Waters Program will host a residential rainwater harvesting and turf management training on August 20, 2026, for Denton County. The free event will be at the Denton County Southwest Courthouse, 6200 Canyon Falls Drive, Flower Mound, Texas, August 20, from 9:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m.

The Karahan Companies, developers of Fields West, recently signed an additional seven new leases to its growing list of high-end retailers and world-class restaurants, with 44 leases now signed within the pedestrian-friendly environment at Fields West. Rendering of new Flower Child location coming to Fields West, credit: Gensler

With average temperatures and heat-related illness and injury on the rise, heat-conscious exercise practices are more important than ever. Taking a few simple precautions can prevent heat-related harm when exercising outdoors, according to Laura Marsh, MD, head team physician for Texas A&M student-athletes and a clinical assistant professor with the Texas A&M University Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine and the Texas A&M Health Sports Medicine clinic.

2015 – The first piece of suspected debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is discovered on Réunion Island. Réunion Island is an island in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas department and region of France within the African region. Part of the Mascarene Islands, it is located approximately 367 nautical miles east of the island of Madagascar and 94 nautical miles southwest of the island of Mauritius. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370 / MAS370) was an international passenger flight operated by Malaysia Airlines that disappeared from radar on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia to its planned destination, Beijing Capital International Airport in China, killing 239 passengers and crew members. The cause of its disappearance has not been determined. It is widely regarded as the greatest mystery in aviation history. The crew of the Boeing 777-200ER, registered as 9M-MRO, last communicated with air traffic control (ATC) around 38 minutes after takeoff when the flight was over the South China Sea. The aircraft was lost from ATC's secondary surveillance radar screens minutes later, but was tracked by the Malaysian military's primary radar system for another hour, deviating westward from its planned flight path. It left radar range 200 nautical miles west-northwest of Penang Island in northwestern Peninsular Malaysia. The search for the missing aircraft became the most expensive search in the history of aviation. It focused initially on the South China Sea and Andaman Sea, before a novel analysis of the aircraft's automated communications with an Inmarsat satellite indicated that the aircraft had travelled far southward over the southern Indian Ocean. Several pieces of debris washed ashore in the western Indian Ocean during 2015 and 2016; many of these were confirmed to have originated from Flight 370.