College Station Mayor John Nichols visits with WTAW’s Chelsea Reber about last week’s budget workshop, new fire engines, this week’s council meeting agenda, the convention and recreation center feasibility studies, the Texas legislature’s special session, students returning, the Brazos Valley Bombers, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs on Wednesday, July 23, 2025.
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Local law enforcement has responded to two fatality crashes in three days. College Station police is investigating a fatality crash that took place Monday morning (April 27) on FM 60 west of Highway 47. CSPD’s Facebook page says an 18 year old woman who attended a local high school died. She was driving an eastbound car that crossed into oncoming traffic and struck a westbound pickup head on. The driver of the pickup was taken to a hospital with serious injuries. As of Monday at 2 p.m. no names have been released except to family members and school officials. Bryan police reports on Saturday night (April 25) on Highway 47 near the RELLIS campus, a Caldwell resident died in a one vehicle crash. A BPD spokesman says 24 year old Esequiel Flores was driving a vehicle in the northbound lanes when the vehicle crossed the median and crashed in the southbound lanes. There were no passengers and other vehicles were involved.
Human remains are found west of Caldwell. The Burleson County sheriff’s office told Brazos County investigators they do not believe this is related to the search for Nikki Winder, the Bryan area woman who was last seen February 25th. A news release issued Monday (April 27) by Burleson County says the remains were found last Thursday (April 23) in the Cade Lakes subdivision. The only other information from the news release is that positive identification has not been made as of noon on Monday.
The College Station city council plans to discuss a request made by a local political action committee in an attempt to improve conditions in residential neighborhoods. Charles Barr of the College Station Association of Neighborhoods (CSAN) said during the public comment period of the last city council meeting that they want to require owners of traditional rental homes and short term rentals to post city ordinances related to parking, noise, and trash violations among other things. At the end of the council meeting, when a majority of members said they supported a workshop discussion, members also stressed the discussion would not include revisiting the idea of mandatory inspection of rental housing. Click HERE to read presentation materials from the College Station Association of Neighborhoods, provided to WTAW News by the city of College Station. Click below to hear comments from the April 23, 2026 College Station city council meeting. Listen to “College Station city council agrees to discuss a local PAC's request for rental property owners to post city ordinances” on Spreaker.
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