SAN ANTONIO – South Texas is known for its rich history and colorful past, elements that have led to some unique town names. Take Bigfoot for instance. The small community south of San Antonio was not ...

Bishop John W. Yanta can count a lot of important “firsts” in his life and that of his ancestral home, Panna Maria, a village southeast of San Antonio, population 45. The first Catholic bishop to be ...

The Polish Heritage Center at Panna Maria has rescheduled the opening and reception for “Celebrating Women’s History: How Polish Women Preserved Cultural Traditions Through Work, Faith, and Family” ...

Panna Maria, Texas, a rural community near the center of Karnes County, has the distinction of being the oldest permanent Polish settlement in the U.S. The descendants continue to celebrate their ...

Mary Louise Keller, age 66, of Panna Maria, passed away on Jan. 19, 2008 in San Antonio. Ms. Keller was born on July 14, 1941, in Panna Maria, to the late Zeferin Keller and Cecilia Moczygemba Keller.

The markers of Central Texas’s Czech and German history are well-known—we’re quick to boast of our Oktoberfests, our biergartens, our kolache bakeries. The paths blazed by Central European immigrants ...

'Nature is punishing us': Drought imperils farmers and bees in Mexico's north ...