A 5-year-old boy who was at the center of an Amber Alert on Monday after being abducted from Overton has been returned home. His alleged abductor has been charged with kidnapping.
Johnson’s Senate Bill 82 would remove some language from laws on how educators must instruct sex education in Texas schools and repeal language stating “homosexuality” is illegal. Senate Bill 81 also removes language related to the criminality of same-sex sexual conduct and changes the family code to say “spouse” instead of “husband and wife.”
McAllen police arrested an at-home nurse who they allege was choking and showing porn to the sisters of one of his patients, records detail.
Hays County Commissioners unanimously approved the public defender's office contract with Neighborhood Defender Service, Inc. at its meeting Tuesday.
Huffman joined the chamber in April 2020. Prior to that, she worked as the Texas executive director of the Nature Conservancy and held city management roles with both the City of Austin and San Marcos.
The City of Austin said they heard the concerns of the candidates and that "the city's law department and clerk's office will be working with council to clarify section 2-2 of city code relating to campaign finance going forward."
As a product of inflation, the American Farm Bureau Federation estimates Texans may pay 16 percent more for their Thanksgiving dinner this year than in 2021.
Some bars and businesses in Austin went above and beyond when it comes to spreading holiday cheer.
Some have hypothesized that as more people move to the state from California, New York, and other liberal strongholds, Texas will slowly turn from red to purple to blue. But Rep. James Frank, who was just reelected to his sixth term in the Texas House of Representatives, said he believes that prediction won't come true.
While the 2022 Austin City Limits Music Festival wrapped just over a month a go, festival heads are already gearing up for 2023's two-weekend event.
The Little Gay Shop, located at 828 Airport Blvd., shared on social media that it will host a community gathering and vigil at 6 p.m. Neighbors are asked to attend and show support for Club Q in Colorado Springs, the space where a gunman went in Saturday night and killed five people and hurt more than a dozen others.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos awarded Austin's Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO) a $2.5 million grant for their work on homelessness solutions, according to an ECHO press release Tuesday.
An anonymous Manor resident claimed their $2 million Powerball prize after buying a winning ticket at a northwest Austin H-E-B.
As many as 4 million Texans will head out on the road or take a flight. This represents a 1% increase over 2021 and is 95% of pre-pandemic levels.
President Joe Biden continued a 75-year tradition Monday and pardoned a pair of Thanksgiving turkeys named after his favorite flavor of ice cream while cracking jokes about his political party's better-than-expected performance in this month's midterm elections.
Austin Public Health is reporting the flu positivity rate in Travis County is more than double what it usually is at this point in the season.
The World Cup is underway this week as soccer fans fill up bars around Austin to watch the sporting spectacle.
The forecast continues to trend wetter for Thanksgiving Day with one to two inches of rain possible by the end of the week.
The Austin Fire Department will conduct a demonstration Tuesday alongside H-E-B to show Thanksgiving cooks how NOT to fry a turkey.
Researchers with the University of Texas announced a new project earlier this month that will hopefully provide valuable data to the community: the Climate Atlas.
Costco Wholesale Corp. appears to be planning a warehouse in Cedar Park to support its burgeoning delivery business.
The reward was originally set at $10,000 in May 2021—five months after Landry’s disappearance.
Austin Resource Recovery with the City of Austin released a list of zero-waste gift ideas for the 2022 holiday season.
Bale converted the resulting penalty kick in the 82nd minute, giving Wales a 1-1 draw Monday night that left the Americans feeling frustrated and made their path to the knockout stage more precarious.
Thanksgiving is right around the corner and AAA Texas predicts 4 million Texans will be traveling 50 miles or more.
