San Antonio Current

The East Side warehouse ICE wants to turn into a detention site has sat empty for three years. Eight members of San Antonio City Council and Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones on Friday called for a special meeting to delay U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to convert an East Side warehouse into a detention facility. The meeting is expected to convene next week. The first, which calls for a meeting no later than Oct.

President Donald Trump at Republicans’ midterm convention in Dallas on Sept. 10, 2026 WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is headed to San Antonio next week for a rally featuring Ken Paxton, according to a Republican National Committee official — the president’s second Texas campaign stop in as many weeks.

Southwest Valley employees survey an area in the parking lot of a river access area off of Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive in Big Bend National Park on Aug. 13, 2026. EL PASO — A judge on Friday blocked further border barrier construction in the Big Bend region, approving an environmental group’s motion for a preliminary injunction. At the end of Friday’s hearing, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone asked the courtroom to remain calm while she read her order aloud from the bench.

Some homes are tailor made for families. Case in point: a limestone two-story property recently listed for sale in Northwest San Antonio for $617,000. The 2,800-square-foot house comes with three private suites — one downstairs and the others on the second story — which minimizes the likelihood of morning qurrels.

A luxurious estate listed for nearly $3 million near San Antonio’s Shavano Park is fit for a king — maybe even King Louis XIV. The 9,666-square-foot mansion comes with six bedrooms and six and a half baths. Each room in the French-inspired estate exudes an air of Versailles in its opulence thanks to soaring ceilings, graceful archways and oversized windows pooling light onto its ornately tiled floors. Thankfully, it stops short of having an abundance of gilded moldings.

State Sen. Jose Menendez, U.S Rep. Joaquin Castro, state Sen. Rolando Gutierrez and San Antonio Councilwoman Phyllis Viagran (left to right) listen to testimony about what’s happening inside ICE detention centers during a Friday hearing. Women detained in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers are being subjected to sexual assault, a top immigrant-rights advocate testified during a congressional field hearing Friday in San Antonio.

The scorching temps outside may scream “summer,” but that doesn’t mean San Antonio has to sit out fall. From the Alamo City to the surrounding Hill Country, plenty of places are already breaking out the pumpkins, firing up the hayrides and cutting paths through the corn. Whether you’re after family-friendly fall fun or something a little creepier after dark, we’ve rounded up the area’s best corn mazes, pumpkin patches, hayrides and other autumn attractions.

The second annual Con-ALMA Forum will take place this Saturday at the Mexican Cultural Institute San Antonio. With soul at the center of the conversation, the second annual Con-ALMA Forum, “Identidad Mexicoamericana: Culturas e historias binacionales,” will explore the histories and family ties that shape Mexican American identity on both sides of the border. The free public event will take place from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, at the Mexican Cultural Institute San Antonio, 643 E.

A Flock camera records drivers on Texas 35 near Rockport on Aug. 23, 2026. Dallas will keep more than 300 Flock Safety cameras originally slated for removal after the surveillance company paused certain agencies’ payments for the devices for 90 days, a move made in response to Gov. Greg Abbott’s state funding freeze for the controversial cameras.

Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a Venezuelan national working as a food delivery driver, has finally had surgery to remove the bullet from his back. The Austin man shot by an ICE officer while delivering food has finally had surgery to remove the bullet from his back — 11 days after the incident occurred. Venezuelan national Wilber Rafael Garces Perez underwent surgery Thursday morning and is now recovering, according to statements from his attorneys and U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio.