Kenedy County, TX

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — At last, the Hayfield fire in southern Kenedy County has been 100% contained. According to the Texas A&M Forest Service, that fire started back on Thursday, Mar. 24. Since then, it spread to burn out a grand total of 11,182 acres in Kenedy County. Texas...

The Border Patrol are arresting a truck driver after finding more than three-dozen people hiding behind pallets of rotting fruit inside his tractor-trailer. Agents at the Sarita checkpoint in Kenedy County stopped the truck early Saturday when a Border Patrol K-9 alerted them to something in the trailer. A secondary inspection found 38 people who were in the country illegally trying to hide behind the old fruit in the trailer.

KENEDY COUNTY, Texas — The above video is from a previous report of a fire in Robstown. Coastal Bend residents are waking up to the strong smell of smoke outside Friday morning. According to the Texas A&M Forest Service (TFS), there are two wildfires burning in the area. The...

The smoke you’re smelling this morning is from a fire in Kenedy County, according to the National Weather Service in Corpus Christi. “There are no fires in our area that we can see on our satellite,” said Liz Sommerville, a meteorologist with the NWS in Corpus Christi. The...

KENEDY COUNTY, Texas — Talk about law enforcement stretched thin. In south Texas’ Kenedy County, just two sheriff’s deputies per shift are assigned to patrol a region of nearly 2,000 square miles at any given time. And that’s on a good day. A captain with the...

Many in the Coastal Bend area smelled smoke outside Friday morning due to two wildfires. According to the Texas A&M Forest Service, the Hayfield South fire in Kenedy County had burned at least 5,000 acres as of 9:30 a.m. The fire was 35% contained. A wind shift in the area caused the...

KENEDY COUNTY, Texas — One South Texas representative disagrees with the presence of guardsmen on area ranches. The effort is part of Governor Abbott's Operation Lonestar, which dispatched guard troops to King and Armstrong Ranches in Kenedy County. The program is a state effort to stop the flow of migrants through South Texas.

The 2022 Kleberg Kenedy County Junior Livestock Show was a huge success, as once again the children and families from our area proved they are champions when it comes to raising livestock and presenting. In this picture, Jaycee Collins, the Grand Champion in Market Lambs, watches the bidders at the Saturday auction bid $22,000 for her beautiful lamb. For pictures of all the Grand Champions and Reserve Champions from this year's show, see pages 8 and 9. (Photo by Terry Fitzwater)

One of the biggest events of the year in Kleberg and Kenedy County is the annual Kleberg-Kenedy County Junior Livestock Show. This weekend the livestock show kicks into high gear, and we encourage all area residents to get out to the J.K. Northway Expo Center and support the kids who are participating in this program.

SARITA, Texas — If you’ve driven to South Padre Island, you’ve been to Kenedy County. You just may not have noticed it. There is no place to stop—no gas station, no restaurant. Just the highway, ranches and 350 residents. “When it's raining and it's green and...

A situation in Kenedy county involving a bus transporting Haitian immigrants escalated Monday afternoon.