Brian Kirkpatrick
Brian Kirkpatrick has been a journalist in Texas most of his life, covering San Antonio news since 1993, including the deadly October 1998 flooding, the arrival of the Toyota plant in 2003, and the base closure and realignments in 2005.
He also served as news director and anchor at KTSA and Metro Networks, and was previously the "Morning Edition" anchor at Texas Public Radio. His early career included work as a news anchor and production assistant for the Texas State News Network/Dallas Cowboys Radio Network in Dallas, from 1988-1993. During his years at TSN, he helped cover the Luby’s mass shooting in Killeen and the Branch Davidian standoff at Mount Carmel. Kirkpatrick read his first newscast on a small radio station in the Hill Country as a teenager in 1981.
Brian returns to reporting after teaching high school journalism at Harlandale High School in San Antonio for the past seven years.
-
Texas hemp shop owners are celebrating recent signals from the Drug Enforcement Administration that delta-8 is not a controlled substance at this time. -
It will be a rainy Thanksgiving Day for much of Texas as a cold front gobbles up the state.
-
The Texas Pecan Growers Association reports the state's pecan crop is looking good this harvest time.
-
A Vietnam War veteran battling stage IV cancer received a Purple Heart Monday for wounds he received in combat 55 years ago. 77-year-old Robert Briggs of San Antonio enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1962, after graduation from Robert E. Lee High School.
-
Just in time for Halloween, San Antonio's Emily Morgan Hotel has been named among this year's Top 25 Most Haunted American Hotels.
-
An archaeological dig on the banks of the San Pedro Creek Culture Park in the west end of downtown San Antonio has unearthed the cornerstone of the post Civil War-era St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church.
-
Tropical Storm Nicholas has formed in the Gulf of Mexico. Gov. Greg Abbott said the state has deployed resources ahead of the storm.
-
The Texas Hill Country has finished in third place in USA Today's 10 Best Reader's Choice awards for best wine regions. San Antonio-based Cottonwood Wine Tours finished in 10th place for offering the best wine tour.
-
CEO of University Health George Hernandez said hospitalizations within the public health system show why it's important to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
-
A team of researchers from the San Antonio-based Southwest Research Institute combined computer models of asteroid evolution with observations of known asteroids to determine where the dinosaur-killing asteroid might have come from.
-
The Texas Department of Transportation reports cost and completion estimates on the new Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge will become more clear in a few months.
-
Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a call for qualified current and former county jailers to assist border sheriffs with operating detention facilities and providing jail beds.
