The San Antonio Current was recognized in four categories at this week's 2026 Association of Alternative Newsmedia Awards.

Freelancer and copy editor Dean Zach won second place in the Immigration Coverage category for his cover story "Repeating History: Survivors of South Texas' World War II internment camps see terrifying parallels in Trump's immigration crackdown." Sign up "'Repeating History' by Dean Zach for the San Antonio Current shows a simple but devastating editorial insight: the Crystal City WWII internment camp and today's Dilley Immigration Processing Facility sit less than an hour apart in South Texas, making the repetition of history not a metaphor but a geographic fact," judges wrote of the piece.

"By centering the voices of survivors now in their 80s - men who were kidnapped from their homes, stripped of their passports, and imprisoned as children - alongside a scene of a Dilley city council meeting where officials cheerfully describe finger-painting activities without once mentioning the toddler who died inside the facility, Zach constructs a portrait of historical amnesia that is both meticulous and haunting. The story is the antidote to what survivor Naganuma calls his country's short memory." Digital Content Editor Stephanie Koithan won third place in the Arts Feature - Long Form category for her cover story "The Junk Artist: Phil Ross isn't about to let the city take down his tower of found objects." Longtime Current restaurant critic Ron Bechtol won third place in the Food Writing category for a selection of 2025 articles.