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Reports due 30 days before the Nov. 3 vote show front-runners in money raised for mayor and three council seats, while several challengers reported little or nothing.
Letters went to roughly 1,440 owners and neighbors about the city-initiated Middle Housing rezoning. Staff will take questions at City Hall from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, and formal hearings are expected in early 2027.
The College Station venue is scheduled to open Monday at Post Oak Mall, with a restaurant, sports bar and arcade in the former Conn’s storefront.
Republican Chris Gober and Democrat Caitlin Rourk are running to succeed retiring Rep. Michael McCaul in District 10, which takes in all of Brazos County, as early voting runs through Oct. 30.
Texas A&M computer scientists found that language models trained on short, highly shared social media posts began skipping reasoning steps and were hard to repair afterward.
The governor's office awarded $179,768 for the county's adult drug court and $202,018 for its mental health court, with no local match required; commissioners acknowledge the awards Tuesday.
David Sessum, a Texas A&M AgriLife employee, and Chris Cartwright, a Bryan ISD athletics volunteer, are on the Nov. 3 ballot for Single Member District 2, alongside the district's two-cent tax rate election.
A wireless assessment found poor coverage in parts of College Station High, the CTE Center, Wellborn Middle, Pecan Trail and Greens Prairie; the Graybar purchase is on Tuesday's consent agenda.
Rock Prairie Management District No. 2, whose 590 occupied homes pay a 65-cent district tax rate, would repay developers for water and drainage lines; the request is on Thursday's consent agenda.
Revised interim guidelines before commissioners Oct. 20 cap most raises at a position's midpoint, require court approval to refill long-vacant jobs and set a Nov. 19 deadline for the first round of requests.
The council is asked Thursday to accept EPA community project money that would cover 80% of a $937,500 engineering job for about 25,000 feet of replacement pipe; the city had asked Congress for $6 million.
A clerk's notice moves the excessive-force case against the city and its police chief to Judge Drew B. Tipton and vacates the docket call that was expected to produce a trial date.
The Finlay Donovan author’s College Station visit includes a presentation, audience questions and a book signing.
Commissioners vote Oct. 20 on a subscription covering 26 prosecutor licenses, unlimited storage, transcription and a discovery module, paid in 10 yearly installments of $48,557.60.
The three-day fair at the Brazos County Expo Complex pairs a concert each day with UPRA Finals rodeo, a carnival and livestock shows; here are the hours and ticket prices.
Two Oct. 22 consent items would pay Union Pacific an estimated $60,000 and add $78,938 to Halff's 2016 design contract for a crossing project slowed by revisions; the city has budgeted $18 million.
More than 60 nonprofit leaders met Friday at a free summit organized by the City of College Station and United Way Brazos Valley ahead of the Oct. 20 Brazos Valley Gives giving day.
TxDOT says 78 people died on roads in its 10-county Bryan District between Jan. 1 and Oct. 1, with 20 of those deaths in the most recent two months, and is urging drivers to slow down and buckle up.
Brazos County's elections chief says ballots given to a counter clerk at the main Bryan post office go straight to her office, while those left in collection boxes are routed through Houston.
Halff Associates would pay $250,000 and geotechnical firm CME $15,000 under a deal on the council's Oct. 22 consent agenda, ending the city's claims over soil conditions that led it to scrap the ball fields in 2023.
Cash Construction would lay more than 8,000 feet of larger pipe between Harvey Road and Highway 6 under an Oct. 22 consent item; staff say the old line along the creek bank risks failures and state fines.
