The sun rises Thursday over SpaceX’s Starship and Super Heavy launch facility in Boca Chica.
We’re getting close to the beginning of the school year, so you may have just gotten back from your family vacation. If so, and you’re looking to catch up on what happened while you were away, here are the stories that caught readers’ this past week.
Three months after SpaceX’s first Starship launch ended in a fiery explosion, the company hasn’t submitted its final accident report to the Federal Aviation Administration, signaling that the next-generation rocket program is unlikely to attempt a second launch this summer.
Find out more about the challenges, including legal battles, facing the company as it prepares for another launch.
Aldo’s Ristorante Italiano is one of the Top 10 Italian restaurants in San Antonio.
Mike Sutter’s has dropped another Top 10 ranking —this time highlighting the city’s best Italian restaurants.
Click to see some newcomers and others who’ve reinvented themselves.
Drive through San Antonio and you can see the area’s immense growth during the last 20 years. Look from above, and the contrast is just as stark in some areas.
Click to see satellite photos of the parts of the San Antonio metro area that have undergone that have seen the greatest increase in the densest type of development.
Velma Peña, who lives on Patton Boulevard on the West Side, has seen the median appraised home value in her ZIP code, 78237, rise 92.8 percent from 2019 to 2023. But while her taxes have risen, Peña — president of the Westwood Square neighborhood association — hasn’t seen major improvements in her neighborhood.
Neighborhoods bordering downtown and pockets of southern and northern Bexar County — including areas with some of the most affordable housing — saw the biggest jumps in median residential values over the past five years.
Find out which 10 ZIP codes had the biggest increases, and what residents in those areas have to say.
“What happened was definitely a strong reminder for me that no one is guaranteed tomorrow,” KENS 5 anchor Sarah Forgany told viewers on her first day back at work.
KENS 5 anchor Sarah Forgany has returned to work after being in and out of the hospital since March.
Read about the support she’s received and details of her illness that’s she shared for the first time.
Ricardo Delgado covers the Hill Country for the San Antonio Express-News. He previously worked for The University Star at Texas State University. Email Ricardo at Ricardo.Delgado@express-news.net.