EAST SIDE

A brush fire near Interstate 10 and Foster Road Sunday afternoon scorched the backyard fences of some homes nearby. Homeowners say the owner of the property where the fire started should make changes to prevent that kind of danger in the future.

Multiple crews are responding to a large brush fire on the East Side, according to the San Antonio Fire Department.

Plans to rezone a plot of land near Interstate 10 and Loop 1604 on the East Side are moving forward.

A man and woman are in critical condition following a one-vehicle crash on the East Side, San Antonio police said.

KSAT News at Noon hit the road on Friday to the Carver Community Cultural Center in the heart of the Dignowity Hill neighborhood.

The forthcoming University Health Wheatley clinic, a three-story, 60,000-square-foot medical complex will open on the East Side near the Wheatley Sports Complex in early 2026, a news release said.

As the city expands, so are the conversations about the future of this field on the East Side.

The Ella Austin Community Center is a hub for the East Side. But for about 18 months the center will be closed as it undergoes a major facelift.

A man in his 30s is in the hospital in critical condition after having his throat slashed early Wednesday morning, according to San Antonio police.

A woman is in the hospital in serious condition after she was hit by a vehicle in a parking lot on the city’s East Side late Monday night, according to San Antonio police.

A man and a woman were struck by a Jeep in a hit-and-run crash after leaving a bar just east of downtown, according to San Antonio police.

A fire that started on the outside of New Testament Missionary Baptist Church caused heavy damage inside the building. Arson investigators are trying to determine how it started.

San Antonio fire investigators are trying to find the person who may have set fire to a church on the East Side overnight.

The San Antonio Police Department said it is searching for a suspect in connection with a deadly shooting on the East Side.

Westbound traffic on Interstate 10 on the East Side has been closed due to an 18-wheeler crash early Thursday morning.

A man accused of catfishing and sexually assaulting a woman on the East Side was arrested in Selma, according to San Antonio police.

The San Antonio Police Department said it is investigating what led up to a deadly shooting late Friday evening.

A man having problems with his recreational vehicle was hit and killed while trying to chase down his dogs on Interstate 10, according to San Antonio police.

A motorcyclist was taken to an area hospital after being hit by a vehicle late Sunday night, according to San Antonio police.

The San Antonio Police Department said it is investigating what led up to a deadly shooting late Friday evening.

Traffic on the East Side remains at a standstill and TxDOT has shut down a part of Loop 410 after a driver crashed into an overhead sign bridge early Friday morning.

San Antonio police have released a new critical incident video showing officers shooting a suspect who allegedly pointed a gun at them during a surveillance operation on the East Side.

San Antonio police said a suspect is dead after he appeared to force his way into an East Side home.

An argument between two women at an unlicensed bar turned into a shooting overnight on the city’s East Side, according to San Antonio police.

An unoccupied two-story home on the city’s East Side was destroyed by a fire late Wednesday night, according to the San Antonio Fire Department.

One man is in the hospital in critical condition and another has been detained following a shooting inside an East Side home early Wednesday morning, according to San Antonio police.

Emergency crews responded to a car erupting in flames on the the city’s East Side early Thursday morning.

The eastbound lanes of Interstate 10 are closed on the East Side due to a crash, The Texas Department of Transportation San Antonio reported Friday afternoon.

Workers took down a popular tribute to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to make way for new artwork. The painting, installed above the N. New Braunfels Avenue bridge in 1997, had become old and faded.

San Antonio is poised to receive nearly $3 million in funding to begin drafting a study addressing connectivity between the East Side and downtown.

Four people were taken to an area hospital following a 2-vehicle crash at an East Side intersection early Wednesday morning, according to San Antonio police.

Burglar bars on the windows made putting out a fire at an East Side home difficult early Tuesday morning, according to the San Antonio Fire Department.

San Antonio Rising Stars Community Basketball League is gearing up for a new season. The league seeks to give young men in the community an opportunity to better their lives.

The San Antonio Police Department has identified an aggravated robbery suspect who was shot and killed by officers after allegedly pointing a gun at them.

Two San Antonio police officers tracking down a man wanted on two aggravated robbery warrants shot and killed the man on the East Side, according to Chief William McManus.

Many community members say the economic development promises made when the San Antonio Spurs moved to a new arena on the East Side have not been fulfilled.

San Antonio police are searching for a driver who crashed a stolen vehicle into a patrol car overnight.

Two teenagers are in the hospital, one in critical condition, after a shooting on the city’s East Side late Monday night, according to San Antonio police.

San Antonio police said a motorcyclist was stalled out along Interstate 10 when they were struck by a vehicle and later died.

Hope House Ministries is a social service group on the East Side, but the building its team works out of holds more than a century of history.

WSAN radio, owned by Ronald Gordon, aims to fill a void in San Antonio's airwaves by offering music and information that appeals to the African American community.

A man was taken to the hospital in critical condition after a shooting in an East Side neighborhood.

A driver crashed their vehicle into the front of an East Side home, hitting a gas line late Thursday night, according to San Antonio police.

A man in his 30s is hospitalized after being shot outside a home on the city’s East Side late Thursday night, according to San Antonio police.

The Keyhole was more than a jazz nightclub; long before segregation was dissolved, the club paved the way for a sense of unity through music.

Traffic on the East Side will be delayed this weekend by construction taking place on a stretch of Loop 410.

In January, San Antonio’s MLK March — the largest in the nation — was canceled due to inclement weather.

A vacant home on the city’s East Side broke out in flames early Wednesday morning, according to the San Antonio Fire Department.

Police said the suspect demanded cash from the store’s register and flashed a handgun before pistol-whipping the employee.

A permanent exhibit opening Saturday at the Sutherland Springs Historical Museum will honor the people who were enslaved at the Polley Plantation, known as Whitehall in Wilson County.

Tarod Mitchell, 20, was shot while standing near the intersection of Arthur and Mittman streets on the East Side on Dec. 15.

Marlena Araujo, the owner of Nuevo Leon Bakery, said she plans to retire and spend more time with her family.

San Antonio firefighters say a smoke alarm may have saved the life of a woman and her several pets as a house fire destroyed her home on the city’s East Side early Tuesday morning.

The Cowboy Breakfast will help kick off the 2024 San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo as an official event from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Jan. 26 at 142 Gembler Road.

The Cowboy Breakfast Foundation on Thursday officially announced it is cutting ties to the long-held tradition of Cowboy Breakfast, which was the “unofficial kickoff to the rodeo season.

The iconic mural of MLK was painted for people to mark history.

Empower House San Antonio provides health services, youth development programs and advocacy opportunities for women and girls of color on the East and West sides.

Despite freezing temperatures expected next week, San Antonio’s Martin Luther King Jr. March and Celebration is still on schedule.

The team at Gardopia Gardens is growing microgreens inside a shipping container on their property on the East Side of San Antonio.

The 2024 MLK March and Celebration has been canceled due to icy conditions.

Fire crews say they had to rely on water already on their trucks when they were battling a raging house fire Monday morning. They say the water pressure of the nearby fire hydrants was too low for them to use.

Low water pressure from fire hydrants have added a degree of difficulty for firefighters while battling an East Side house fire early Monday morning, according to the San Antonio Fire Department.

A man is in the hospital after being shot in the chest following a vehicle crash on the city’s East Side late Monday night, according to San Antonio police.

San Antonio police are asking for the public’s help to solve the murder of an East Side man killed Dec. 29, 2017.

A driver suffered a gunshot wound to his leg and a graze to the head during a road rage incident on Loop 410 on the East Side, according to San Antonio police.

Effie Washington, who was mauled by 2 dogs in November, was among more than half a dozen people who suffered severe injuries or death in dog attacks this year.

San Antonio Police are searching for a driver who hit and killed someone just before midnight Sunday on the I-10 exit ramp to South New Braunfels Avenue.

A fire broke out in a vacant home undergoing remodeling on the city’s East Side early Tuesday morning, according to the San Antonio Fire Department.

Dignowity Hill is committed to its history but open to its evolution, according to neighbors. A unique example of that is the importance and reverence people share for The Carver, a performing arts center that was once the only library for Black San Antonians during segregation. Just blocks away, a company focused on innovation in the life sciences has become part of the neighborhood. And the latter has plans to grow even bigger roots in Dignowity Hill.

As part of the SAFFE unit — an acronym for San Antonio Fear Free Environment — Officer Carlos Gutierrez is tasked with trying to prevent crime before it happens.

People in the historic neighborhood, just east of downtown, say they feel neglected when it comes to new businesses opening in the city. They'd like more stores that sell healthy food.

Young professionals, developers and house flippers spurred an urban revival in old Dignowity Hill, and that's lead to soaring property values, higher tax bills and gentrification.

The view of downtown from many of the homes in the Dignowity Hill neighborhood is second to none, but they also have a front-row seat to some of the city’s biggest issues: homelessness, gentrification and rising property taxes.

An African American community at its heart, vestiges of its affluent past remain in Dignowity Hill. But over recent decades of demolition and rebuilding, one historian worries that the integrity of the neighborhood was also lost in the process.

San Antonio firefighters worked to put out a fire that burned through one home and threatened to burn another on the city’s East Side early Monday morning.

This edition of Know My Neighborhood explores the push and pull of preservation versus progress, the heart of a neighborhood in transition and the struggle for the community to define itself.

A man is dead after San Antonio police say he was shot at while standing outside near the intersection of Arthur and Mittman Streets on the East Side.

A woman was hospitalized after she was shot at while standing outside a convenience store on the East Side, according to San Antonio police.

A 42-year-old man was wounded in an apparent drive-by shooting at a home on the city’s East Side late Tuesday night, according to San Antonio police.

A San Antonio teen charged in connection with a recent shooting and standoff also has ties to the death of a 22-year-old woman in Converse, according to court records.

A 16-year-old girl is in the hospital after being struck in a hit-and-run late Monday night, according to San Antonio police.

Two people had to be extracted from their vehicle by firefighters after a head-on crash on the city’s East Side late Sunday night, according to the San Antonio Fire Department.

Three men and one woman are in custody after a pursuit led to a standoff at a home on the East Side Sunday night.

Rather than getting additional points in the scoring process for non-low-bid contracts, city staff say all small businesses should get the same leg up over larger companies.

San Antonio police say it appears two men were trying to commit a carjacking when they shot and wounded a woman outside her East Side home.

A woman was shot on Friday morning when two men in ski masks tried to carjack her outside her home on the East Side.

San Antonio fire investigators are trying to determine the cause of a fire that damaged a home on the city’s East Side early Friday morning.

Located at 2203 SE Loop 410, near Rigsby Avenue on the East Side, the new restaurant is one of five Chick-fil-A locations that have recently opened or will soon open.

More than a dozen shots were fired outside an East Side H-E-B on Monday afternoon, leaving two of the store’s security guards injured and an attempted robbery suspect dead.

The Red Berry Hike and Bike Trailhead, located at the IH-10 entrance to the former Red Berry estate, is now open to the public.

After months of training, thousands of runners hit the streets in downtown San Antonio on Sunday for the 2023 Rock 'n' Roll Marathon and Half-Marathon

Sky 12 provides a bird’s eye view of the 2023 Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon.

Several roads in the San Antonio area will be closed this weekend as CPS Energy crews plan to install new electrical lines, according to a press release.

It’s almost time for the biggest running event of the year in San Antonio — the 2023 Certified Piedmontese Beef Rock ‘n’ Roll Running Series will return on Saturday and Sunday downtown.

Four residents of a home have been displaced following an overnight house fire on the city’s East Side, fire officials said Tuesday.

San Antonio neighborhoods are preparing for thousands of runners to hit the pavement for this year’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon.

A car lost control while entering an apartment complex on the East Side and ended up crashing into a unit, San Antonio police said.

Multiple homes and vehicles were damaged in a shooting on Wednesday evening in an East Side neighborhood.

The Walters Street bridge reopened to traffic Friday. Meanwhile, road work continues on nearby N. New Braunfels Avenue weeks after it was expected to be completed.

Ten people were taken into custody during a drug raid of a home that has been hit by law enforcement at least four times this year, according to Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar.