How to support Central Texas ISDs amid back-to-school season
Here are ways to support your local school districts through available volunteer opportunities, back-to-school drives and donation efforts.
Here are ways to support your local school districts through available volunteer opportunities, back-to-school drives and donation efforts.
Crews are fighting several fires in KXAN's viewing area including in Travis and Blanco Counties. Here's what we know about those fires.
Crews are fighting several fires in KXAN's viewing area including in Travis and Blanco Counties. Here's what we know about those fires.
Blanco County Emergency Management and North Hays County Fire Rescue are responding to an active wildfire spreading near the Blanco and Hays County Line.
UT professor Michael Brandl said there is not a complete definition in economics of a recession, which is the idea that economic activity has declined.
The city of Austin adopted Stage 1 drought response water restrictions that went into effect June 6. These restrictions limit the number of hours automatic irrigation systems can run each day — and come with fines for conservation violators.
After being in business for nearly four decades, an iconic South Congress costume shop will close its doors by the end of the year.
Two people were taken to the hospital after a crash Tuesday in northwest Austin, according to Austin-Travis County EMS' Twitter.
Emergency SNAP benefits for Texans are being extended through August, according to a release from the governor's office.
Data for the first half of the year shows that crime in the city of Austin has decreased slightly compared to 2021.
TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Travis County commissioners have another stacked agenda Tuesday as they prepare for the budget process and work to address affordability. Here's what we're watching Tuesday: Legal help for evictions: Approved Commissioners approved funding for a program that is intended to help keep people in their homes. The Eviction Prevention Legal [...]
As monkeypox rise across Texas, universities are thinking about proactive steps to try to prevent outbreaks.
Austin isn't the only Texas city to have experienced the hottest July on record. In fact, multiple cities all over the state have endured this same heat wave and have broken their own July records.
An 82 year old Taylor woman feels trapped. She can't drive her car, and it's because of damage she says she didn't cause at her rental home.
A man faces a murder charge after a 14-year-old child was hit and killed by a stolen car on Sunday in Round Rock.
The University of Texas announced Tuesday it will be upping its investment into the Giant Magellan Telescope project. It's increasing its total investment into the project to $110.3 million, up from the $65 million investment it had already planned.
While 2022 Atlantic hurricane season is off to a slower start than recent years, large-scale variables are coming together favorably for a quick increase in tropical activity in mid-August.
Struggling families or individuals could start receiving payments from the City of Austin's guaranteed income pilot program as soon as September, according to a Monday city memo.
Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin, the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed at Sandy Hook Elementary, will testify in Alex Jones' defamation trial.
Some residents in one southwest Austin neighborhood are calling for improvements at a highway intersection before someone could lose their life.
A man who died in a crash with an 18-wheeler in north Austin in late July was identified by the Austin Police Department on Monday.
ACC said the $467 million budget also funds the new main building on the Rio Grande Campus and Building 3000 on the Highland Campus.
There is some uncertainty with regard to its construction timeline.
Austin police are searching for a person who they said killed a roommate at a north Austin home Monday night.
Some school districts in Hays County are pushing for more school resource officers this upcoming school year, except for San Marcos CISD.