(New Braunfels, TX) -- The city’s next Bulky Trash Drop-Off Day is set for this Saturday, where you can get rid of large, unwanted items free of charge.
From 8am to noon on Saturday you can drop off big, bulky items to be taken to the county landfill.
That includes mattresses, furniture, as many as ten car tires (without rims), and anything else that...
(New Braunfels, TX) -- A man with drugs and a gun was arrested on Lincoln Street, not far from the Last Public Tuber’s Exit on the Comal River over the weekend.
The incident happened Saturday afternoon, around 5:15, when an officer spotted a car speeding along Comal Avenue.
As the officer turned his car around he noticed that the vehicle sped up and turned...
(New Braunfels, TX) -- A North Texas man was arrested at Schlitterbahn last week for allegedly inappropriately touching two young girls.
New Braunfels Police say that they were contacted on Thursday around 2pm by waterpark security.
Security staff had detained a male after two mothers complained that he had touched their 8-year old daughters while on a ride in...
(New Braunfels, TX) -- One person was airlifted from the scene of an 18-wheeler versus train accident on the far south side of New Braunfels Friday morning.
The wreck happened around 11:15am in the 15-hundred block of Wald Road, in the heavy industrial area on the south end of the city where several quarries are located.
The train, which was traveling at an as yet...
(New Braunfels, TX) -- New Braunfels Police say a group of local teenage boys worked with a 15-year old girl to steal thousands of dollars worth of her father’s belongings.
Last week Thursday officers were called to the Grand Cypress Apartments by a father who said he was locked out of his apartment by his 15-year old daughter and several teenage boys.
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(New Braunfels, TX) -- Last week’s fire at the River Park Apartments on Seville Drive has been ruled accidental by the New Braunfels Fire Marshal’s Office.
Fire Marshal Patrick O’Connell tells KGNB News that maintenance workers doing plumbing repairs on some copper piping last Thursday were using a handheld propane torch and the heat from that torch set off the fire.
The...
(New Braunfels, TX) -- Local firefighters found themselves battling another fire in a large building yesterday afternoon. The fire broke out around 5pm yesterday at the River Park Apartment complex in the 200 block of Seville Drive.
When firefighters arrived they found smoke coming from one building in that apartment complex and a total of 8 apartment units were...
(New Braunfels, TX) -- New Braunfels Police are looking into an apparent stabbing incident after the victim showed up at the Emergency Room with multiple stab wounds.
The incident happened early yesterday morning, around 3:45am, when an unidentified 18-year old Hispanic male was brought into the Emergency Room at Christus New Braunfels Hospital on Union Avenue.
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(New Braunfels, TX) -- New Braunfels Police are looking for information about a man that sucker-punched a city lifeguard on duty at the city's Tube Chute on the Comal River.
That incident happened just before 7pm Wednesday.
New Braunfels Police reports indicate that an apparently intoxicated tuber began accosting the city lifeguard on duty at the tube chute...
(New Braunfels, TX) -- Work is underway at campuses throughout the New Braunfels ISD to install security vestibules which will create secured entry areas feeding directly into school offices.
The new entrance control system will deny entry to unauthorized people and is part of an ongoing re-evaluation of security measures throughout the district.
The installation of those...