Brian Kirkpatrick
General Assignment Reporterbrian@tpr.org
Twitter: @TPRBrian
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.
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A flash flood watch in effect for all of the Hill Country, including devastated Kerr County, and Bexar and surrounding counties, has been extended to 10 p.m. Saturday -
Chip Roy's last-minute flip on the "big, beautiful bill" helped push it through in the U.S. House on Thursday. -
Tropical moisture continues to stream up from the Gulf of Mexico -
Dixie also sells the flags of nations and territories around the world. Visitors can see those as soon as they walk into the main entrance. But their biggest seller is Old Glory followed by the Texas flag. -
He said that President Donald Trump has firm control over Capitol Hill Republicans who have a choice between saving their careers or saving people's lives. -
Lluvia, polvo y humo esta semana para el área de San Antonio antes, durante y después del 4 de julioLas lluvias tropicales se han ido acumulando tras lo que queda de la tormenta tropical Barry en el sur de Texas, lo que ha dejado apenas unas gotas de lluvia en el condado de Bexar. El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional informó que aproximadamente un tercio del área de San Antonio podría experimentar una actividad de lluvia similar el martes y miércoles, a medida que los últimos restos de Barry avanzan por México. -
Woodlawn Lake, SeaWorld and Six Flags Fiesta Texas will all offer their annual fireworks displays. Residents in Boerne, New Braunfels, and Schertz will also enjoy their own festivities. -
Tropical showers have been trailing behind what's left of Tropical Storm Barry across South Texas, resulting in little more than a trace of rain across Bexar County. The National Weather Service reported about a third of the San Antonio area could see similar rain activity on Tuesday and Wednesday as the last of Barry pushes across Mexico.
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Salado Creek feeds Beitel Creek on the city's Northeast Side -
The more consumers spend, the higher the sales tax collections go, so it's one measure of how the local economy is doing.
