During this time, only "essential" businesses will be allowed to continue operating. Those include healthcare providers, government facilities, utility companies and grocery stores.
City Council plans to expand protections against eviction, creating a 60-day grace period before eviction due to nonpayment, according to a Monday news release from several Austin City Council members.
A female resident in her 60s tested positive for the disease on Saturday after completing drive-through testing as a result of her symptoms.
All northbound lanes of Interstate 35 have been shut down at Exit 205B in San Marcos due to a crash Monday afternoon.
Local leaders submit a State of Texas Assistance Request to the Texas Department of State Health Services and the Texas Division of Emergency Management, for their orders to be fulfilled.
Trump suggested that the remedies to fight the epidemic — including worldwide financial pain — may be more harmful than the outbreak itself and vowed to reassess government restrictions after the 15-day mark of the U.S. shutdown.
Small, community-based initiatives and massive companies across the country are sharing "how-to" videos and tutorials with step-by-step processes for creating cotton, non-surgical medical masks.
KXAN has compiled information on the public and private options for COVID-19 testing in the Austin area.
The latest cases are all females between 20-40 years old. Four of the five cases contracted the virus from "unknown exposure sources."
Waco Mayor Kyle Deaver announced Monday morning that a shelter in place order that will go into effect at 11:59 p.m. This is for everyone who does not work for what is considered an essential business.
Austin-based distillery Tito's Handmade Vodka has been working to make 24 tons of hand sanitizer to help meet the urgent need.
AISD will have curbside pick-up and delivery options at 70 total spots around town, 16 curbside options and 54 delivery locations via school buses, will offer one breakfast and one lunch to children and families
According to police, officers were called to the home on Forum Ave near Wells Branch Parkway at 9:36 p.m. Sunday night for a report of someone who was shot
Austin-based Everlywell planned to launch COVID-19 test and diagnosis kits for consumers on March 23. Now the company has announced the first batch of tests will go to healthcare systems and hospitals with a consumer roll- out coming later.
Dallas County, Texas' second largest county by population, will enact a shelter-in-place starting Sunday night requiring people to stay inside their homes.
With classrooms across the country going completely online over at least the next several weeks, Spectrum Cable is stepping up to help with studies.
Gov. Greg Abbott said last week that everyone who needs a COVID-19 test would be able to get one. But many Texans have expressed frustration over the difficulty of getting those tests.
There is a "critical shortage" of coronavirus testing supplies in Austin, so much so that doctors are telling patients they don't qualify for a test, even those patients doctors believe have a "high suspicion" of COVID-19 infection.
