Austin amateur baker builds cookie business from scratch during COVID-19 outbreak
Instead of sitting around, she started baking to keep busy. And now, her busyness is a business.
Instead of sitting around, she started baking to keep busy. And now, her busyness is a business.
Now that the final inspection process is back on track to get the new Manor and Del Valle ISD police departments online, more than a dozen Travis County Sheriff's Office deputies assigned to those campuses could move to alternative duties.
Editor’s note: The above video has the wrong day listed as the deadline for nursing home testing. The correct day is Wednesday, May 27, which is stated in the article below. AUSTIN (KXAN) — Less than half of nursing homes in Austin-Travis County have completed COVID-19 testing for all their residents and staff, according to […]
Austin police are working with the FBI Central Texas Violent Crimes Task Force to investigate a recent bank robbery that occurred in northwest Austin Thursday May 14.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The McConaughey’s are on the road again, this time delivering 110,000 medical masks to hospitals across rural Texas. The couple posted a picture on Twitter, and said thanks to Lincoln Motor Company for donating the masks. Matthew and Camila loaded up a King Ranch edition Ford truck with boxes of masks (they […]
The Manor ISD Board of Trustees announced Dr. Andre Spencer as the lone finalist for the district's new superintendent after a lengthy search involving over 35 candidates.
In a video lasting less than five minutes, Amanda Dugan and Will DuPree share the holiday weekend forecast, which shows higher rain chances on Sunday and Monday.
The sites in Texas are among 350 sites spread across 14 states that CVS Health has set up, and the company expects to have 1,000 locations across the county and a goal to process 1.5 million tests per month.
(Texas Tribune) — The state’s April jobless rate was 12.8% — Texas’ worst monthly tally on record. That number, included in the Labor Department’s monthly report released Friday, is the government’s clearest and most comprehensive look at the economic devastation in Texas since the coronavirus pandemic first swept the state in March. Previously, the state’s worst-ever monthly […]
KXAN News at Noon anchor Amanda Dugan will ask Gov. Abbott's questions around his phased reopening plan, plus other questions about the state's continued response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the second phase of Gov. Greg Abbott's "Open Texas" plan, bars are one of several businesses that can reopen Friday.
The Travis County Sheriff's Office Lake Patrol unit will be fully staffed and be looking for intoxicated boaters on Lake Travis. There will be more DWI, traffic and patrol units on area roads as well, looking for intoxicated drivers and other traffic violations.
At present, with new guidelines in place, James said he doesn't expect people to get on the dancefloor at this time.
Just after 7 a.m. on Friday, deputies say a body was found off East Parmer Lane - near Dessau Road.
One small restaurant says a group decided to kick them while they were still down.
EL PASO, Texas, (Border Report) — Border officers stopped a shipment of illegally harvested seafood on May 13 at a South Texas port of entry. A 49-year-old woman arrived with two ice chests at the McAllen-Hidalgo International Bridge in Hidalgo, Texas. During a secondary inspection, agriculture specialists found “significant quantities” of raw oysters, crab, and shrimp, […]
So far, no citations have been issued for violating social distancing guidelines.
OCONOMOWOC, Wis. (WFLA) – The Western Lakes Fire District is warning people about the dangers of leaving hand sanitizer in their vehicles on a hot day. In a Facebook post showing a burned-out car door, the Western Lakes Fire District explains most hand sanitizers are alcohol-based, making them flammable and should not be in the vehicle […]
EL PASO (Border Report) — A man attempted to return to the U.S. from Mexico with heroin, methamphetamine and oxycodone pills strapped to his waist and in his pants pockets, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a news release. The 24-year-old man, a U.S. citizen, was in the pedestrian lane Monday evening at the […]
For the first time in five decades of marriage, they could no longer see or speak to each other, after both tested positive for COVID-19.
Chase and Sadie Smith, both 18, met at a swim meet during their senior years of high school. They exchanged information, began talking and went on their first date a few days later.
ATCEMS says rescuers have had intermittent verbal contact with the patient.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A swimmer has died after briefly going under water in Lady Bird Lake Thursday evening. Austin-Travis County EMS responded to East Avenue, near the Interstate 35 bridge, around 6:30 p.m, for a report of a swimmer who went under water and did not resurface. Rescuers later located the patient and attempted life-saving […]
Day cares are now open to all children. Up until this week, they were only able to take children of essential workers.
The concept is one scenario currently being considered.