Applause for the Cause,” set for Aug. 28 in New Braunfels, features Cross Canadian Ragweed, Cody Jinks, Jamey Johnson, Kelsey Waldon, and many more

With the gentle melody of the piano by Karen Norman playing in the ballroom of the Willow Brook Country Club, 92nd Texas Rose Festival Queen Avery Armstrong, Princess Mary-Michael Dial, and their court gathered Wednesday for the annual Friends of the Rose ‘Everything’s Coming Up Roses!

Just as we have seen with other natural disasters, the country music world stepped up in a big way, and fast. Right after the floods, Texas legend Robert Earl Keen took to social media with a heavy heart to share his thoughts and announced that he was planning a benefit show to help his home state.

A Tyler man has been arrested in connection to a 2021 federal indictment connecting him to a marijuana trafficking ring.

Equal pay, fair treatment, revenge, and show tunes — that’s the spirit behind Tyler Civic Theater Center’s “9 to 5: The Musical” opening this weekend. Based on the iconic 1980 film starring Dolly Parton,