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Local surveyor Paul Carey is checking elevations along the Medina River where it snakes through town — and occasionally over it. The city hired him to collect data to gauge the accuracy of new floodplain maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

G. Chambers Williams III: Even with a spate of new gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles coming onto the market this year, there still is nothing out there that comes close to the fuel economy of the Toyota Prius, the hybrid by which all others are judged.

A nonprofit animal rights organization based in California filed a complaint this week with the U.S. Department of Agriculture against the San Antonio Zoo, claiming the zoo's treatment of its only elephant violates federal law.

Scott Stroud: For elected officials, lots of downside, limited upside to going forward.

Tommy Adkission: An obvious obstacle to moving forward is the composition of the MPO board itself.

Swarmed by media cameras and cyclists in spandex, Mayor Julián Castro teetered over the frame of a surplus police bike in Main Plaza on Monday.

PRESIDIO — A few miles south down the winding river road, the scientists pulled over, and, with bug nets and camera in hand, scrambled down the bank toward a thicket beside the churning Rio Grande. - Q&A: All about bugs - More environmental news: Living Green

SA's Lisa McKenzie incorporates environmentalism at every turn, down to her grass purse made of Astroturf.