The trial of former Granbury, Texas City Councilman Gary Couch, charged with Boating While Intoxicated in an incident involving a death, is set to begin on Thursday, April 22.

Two sources reported to the Hood County News at 9:45 a.m. that the Hood County Justice Center has been evacuated due to a bomb threat.

Granbury, Texas, ISD Superintendent Jeremy Glenn is nominated for Superintendent of the Year by the Board of Trustees. The board adopted a nominating resolution on April 12 during its regular monthly meeting.

Roadwork on Water’s Edge Drive in Granbury, Texas, continues.

Child hunger is real here. According to feedingamerica.org, children in Hood County, Texas, experienced 22% food insecurity in 2018. More than half of the Granbury, Texas, school district students live in economically disadvantaged households.

The Hood County Sheriff's Office charged a Granbury, Texas man with felony assault after using a PVC pipe to attack his girlfriend.

The Granbury High School FFA wildlife team in Granbury, Texas, made history on Monday, April 12, 2021 when the four-person team consisting of Lexi Arlington, Alex Arlington, Tyler Kendall and Carter Perez advanced to the state wildlife CDE contest. The state contest will be held on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Nacogdoches at the Stephen F. Austin Experimental Forest. 

Masks or face coverings are now optional in Granbury ISD schools. As you know, the CDC, Texas Department of Health, and district still recommend students and staff continue to wear masks or face coverings out of an abundance of caution. 

 It didn’t take long for the top local law enforcement authorities to answer this question: Doesn’t it seem eerily quiet for the last several weeks? No major crimes, wrecks, fires?

Granbury High School senior and young filmmaker Holly Hodges recently got accepted into her dream school, USC School of Cinematic Arts, a private media school within the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Inmates have been sneaking in drugs to the Hood County Jail in Granbury, Texas, through the mail, according to Sheriff Roger Deeds. The Sheriff is trying to stay ahead of the inmates’ illicit innovations by employing digital technology.

The North and East Texas Press Association awarded Kathy Cruz Journalist of the Year and David Montesino Photographer of the Year for entries in the 2020 Better Newspaper Contest among semiweekly newspapers in North and East Texas.

Hood County resident Mike Greene, the owner-operator of KOME 95.5 FM (a local classic rock and pop hits station in the Granbury, Texas area, known by its nickname, K-Hits), is remembered as a sincere person who was passionate about his career in radio broadcasting. Greene died April 7, 2021, in a Fort Worth, Texas, hospital.

The City Council of Granbury, Texas faces a possible city-wide development moratorium if it can’t move forward with a second wastewater treatment plant, and an almost certain lawsuit if it does.

Tolar High School boys basketball head coach Ethan Lunn will not return to lead the Rattlers next season.

Volunteer researchers wade the Brazos to learn about alluring terrapins

Lumber supply-and-demand headaches caused largely by the pandemic are expected to continue impacting construction for the remainder of this year and possibly part of the next, causing delays and financial hits to builders and homebuyers alike.

 Ben, the popular, kid-friendly narcotics dog that had served in the Granbury ISD for seven years until his retirement in 2019, has died at age 10, according to the Granbury Police Department.

 Granbury Mayor Nin Hulett was working in his yard Monday when he received a call that John Calvin Campbell – known to many as J.C. – wanted to see him.

 Payton Holmgreen wasn’t a model student.

 Meals on Wheels of Hood County, in conjunction with Hood County Committee on Aging, has been serving local senior citizens for over 40 years, and they are going as strong as ever.

Brian Bondy, the Granbury chamber’s new president and CEO, has officially been initiated as a Hood County resident: he got stuck at the Cresson intersection waiting for a train to pass.

  Eighty-three Granbury High School students were inducted into the National Honor Society at a ceremony held on March 16 in the GHS Bagby-McMahan Performing Arts Center.