About Comal.News

What Comal.News is

Comal.News is a local news publication for Comal County, Texas. Original local reporting built from public records, direct sourcing, and careful verification.

Serving Comal County, New Braunfels, Bulverde, Garden Ridge, Fair Oaks Ranch, and neighboring communities.

Every story is free to read on the site, and The Comal Daily brings the morning’s reporting to your inbox at no cost.

What we cover

Sections

• Government: City halls, Commissioners Court, elections, and public money.
• Courts & Public Safety: Police, sheriff, courts, and the jail, across every Comal County jurisdiction.
• Schools: Comal ISD, New Braunfels ISD, colleges, and state education policy.
• Business & Economy: Employers, openings, sales tax, and the local economy.
• Real Estate & Development: Rezonings, permits, plats, and what gets built next.
• Land & Water: The aquifer, the rivers, the lake, drought, and weather.
• Community: Events, programs, and civic life.

Towns and places

Comal County · New Braunfels · Bulverde · Garden Ridge · Fair Oaks Ranch · Canyon Lake · Spring Branch · Schertz · Selma

Live conditions

Canyon Lake level & river flow · Burn ban status · Water restrictions · Public meetings & agendas · Road closures

How we report

Our job is to tell readers what happened, how we know, what it means locally, and what remains unanswered. We distinguish fact from assertion, a proposal from an outcome, and a reasonable question from a proven conclusion. When the evidence is incomplete, the story says so plainly.

• Public records first. Software checks records Comal County governments have already published on their websites: meeting agendas and packets, press releases, public notices, purchasing and bid pages, orders and resolutions, court dockets, and emergency alerts. Each retrieved record is preserved unchanged, with the address and time it was collected, as evidence.
• Source links. Material claims link to the records behind them, calculations are explained, and stories say when the available evidence has limits.
• Verification. Names, dates, amounts, quotations, calculations, and context are checked before they reach a headline or alert. Meeting outcomes are confirmed against minutes, video, vote records, contracts, or signed instruments.
• Follow-up. Continuing stories are updated as decisions change.

Comal.News practices AI-enhanced journalism. Collection gathers the documents; it does not decide what is news. AI assists with reading, drafting, and verification, and every draft is checked against the original documents and our editorial rules before it publishes. Every published claim links back to its source.

The full standards are on editorial standards and reporting methods, including the source hierarchy and how records are collected.

Reporting desks

Stories carry the byline of the newsroom desk that covers the beat, such as “Comal.News Government Desk.” A desk byline names a beat of the newsroom, not a person.

• Government Desk: Government & Accountability
• Growth Desk: Growth, Development & Permits
• Public Safety & Courts Desk: Public Safety & Courts
• Schools Desk: Schools
• Water, Utilities & Weather Desk: Water, Utilities, Environment & Weather
• Roads & Infrastructure Desk: Roads & Infrastructure
• Business Desk: Business & Economy
• Community Desk: Community & Events

Corrections

We link primary records whenever possible, identify the source of calculations, label developing information, and preserve meaningful correction notes. Readers can challenge a fact or submit supporting evidence at any time.

Request a correction: corrections@comal.news. Read the corrections policy.

How we are funded

Comal.News is free to read, and The Comal Daily is free.

Comal.News sells advertising: a labeled band on the site and one sponsor a week in The Comal Daily. Prices are published on the rate card.

• Every ad sits in its own band marked “Advertisement,” apart from the reporting.
• Advertisers have no say over coverage, and an ad never runs inside a story about the advertiser.
• Purchasing advertising does not purchase favorable reporting, removal of accurate coverage, or access to confidential newsroom information.
• We do not accept political or campaign advertising.

Contact

General: info@comal.news
News tips and documents: tips@comal.news
Press releases: press@comal.news
Corrections: corrections@comal.news
Privacy: privacy@comal.news
Legal notices: legal@comal.news
Advertising: ads.comal.news

See also the privacy policy and terms of use.