The bigger bill for the GOP primary in Gillespie County illustrates how election costs could rise if hand counting of ballots is widely adopted. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily ...

Gillespie County Republicans are moving forward with a plan to count votes by hand during the 2024 primary election. Gillespie County Elections Administrator Jim Riley holds results from the mock ...

The Texas secretary of state's office plans to send in trainers to make sure Gillespie County can still hold an election this November. Taylor said replacements would be trained by former election ...

Another fire in Gillespie County has prompted evacuations. Residents are being evacuated in the area of Duderstadt Road, which is south of Harper and west of Fredericksburg. As of 8:29 p.m. on ...

GILLESPIE COUNTY, Texas – A massive grass fire, also known as the Crabapple Fire, started in Gillespie County on Saturday, March 15. First responders north of Fredericksburg spotted the fire ...

GILLESPIE COUNTY, Texas – UPDATE on 3/18: Duderstadt Road in Gillespie County has reopened only to residents after a fire off Interstate 10 led to evacuations on Monday, according to Gillespie ...

She covers threats to democracy, disinformation, political violence, and extremism. Gillespie County, Texas — For the last year, Mark Cook has been preaching a kind of low-tech, election ...

HARPER, Texas — A new battery storage project in Gillespie County has some neighbors charged up as they try to stop the facility from being built about 85 miles west of Austin. Among their ...

An election worker hand counts ballots inside of The Edge, a winery in Fredericksburg on Mar. 5, 2024. The hand count of thousands of Republican primary election ballots in Gillespie County is on ...

The hand count of thousands of Republican primary election ballots in Gillespie County is on track to cost taxpayers more than double the wage costs of the 2020 Republican primary, according to ...