For the second year in a row, an important process to help keep track of Austin's homeless population has been canceled due to the ongoing threat of COVID-19, an Austin nonprofit said Thursday. However, the organization said it's using other methods to gather up-to-date data.
After Austin and Travis County leaders announced new COVID-19 orders were going into place that addressed behavior at businesses, local shops and customers at those shops are reacting.
In a lawsuit filed by Christie Oates, she said board members and superintendent Dr. Tom Leonard spoke secretly about hiring Dr. Mark Gooden, a diversity, equity and inclusion consultant. Gooden, who was hired in Summer 2020, led a district-wide committee to help "create a shared understanding of DEI through racial equity leadership training to build capacity and support sustainability," among other goals.
Gov. Greg Abbott's office says the new COVID-19 business orders put in place by Austin and Travis County Thursday are preempted by executive orders signed by the governor last year and do not need to be followed.
They all went through the LBJ Women's Campaign School, a months-long bipartisan program housed within the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
AISD said sites at Norman-Sims, Kiker, Navarro and Northeast will not be open due to the lack of supply. AISD said in a tweet that all other seven testing sites are open, as well as Nomi Health's mass testing site at the Burger Center in Sunset Valley.
Gov. Greg Abbott has previously signed into law an executive order that does not allow local government-issued mask mandates or business capacity restrictions.
Meteorologist Mark Pena spoke with Juke Ball from Juke Automotive about the impacts cold weather can have on your car. You can watch the full interview above for the full interview, but here are the major takeaways.
This design remains a fairly new traffic pattern for many drivers with the first-ever diverging diamond intersection in the country opening up in 2009.
UT Health said it is currently still seeing patients who experienced previous variants, like delta, but expect omicron patients in about three months.
Data shows that in 2019, 103,548 low-priority calls went to 911 operators. In 2021, that number dropped to 50,173.
Court documents show Ryan Faircloth and federal prosecutors agreed to a plea of one count of arson for Faircloth this week.
New data released Wednesday shows 1,590,918 passengers flew out of Austin in November.
On Wednesday, Burnet County reported 87 new cases of COVID-19 — the highest single-day total since February 2021. The county is currently averaging 33 new confirmed cases per day.
Bojangles announced in early January plans to open about 50 locations across Texas, five of which would be in Austin, with others in Dallas Fort-Worth, Houston and San Antonio.
What is "machine learning" and how is it helping APD navigate a staffing shortage?
San Marcos police have released new images of a box truck believed to be involved in a deadly crash from early January.
Currently, We Are Blood also follows national trends and has approximately one day's worth of blood supply in its inventory. This past December, We Are Blood reported 600 more donations were required than in December 2020, marking an 18% increase.
In the fall of 2021, Texas lawmakers passed sweeping changes to its election laws that are now one of the reasons why President Joe Biden is calling on Congress to pass voting rights legislation to supersede these restrictions.
KXAN is keeping track of the number of fatal crashes in the City of Austin in 2022. An interactive map shows where those crashes have occurred.
An Austin activist celebrated a major milestone on Tuesday.
A maintenance worker and young girl killed in a crash Tuesday in north Austin are the city's first lives to be claimed by a traffic collision this year, according to the Austin Police Department.
Rewind to just before midnight on Dec. 27, officers with the Austin Police Department responded to a shots fired call at 6500 Champion Grandview Way in the northwest area of the city.
The Hobbs community is rallying behind a baby who was abandoned by its mom, left for hours in a dumpster late last week.
More than 2,000 Texans were admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 on Tuesday, a new record high for the state.
