Barton Springs is no longer under its first-ever Stage IV Exceptional Drought status, after the Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District found a discrepancy between direct flow data collected while assessing the drought, indicating low flow levels, according to officials.
With Texas high school football kicking off Thursday, KXAN has been traveling to many of our area football programs as they prepare for the season.
The summer months are coming to an end, and hopefully taking the excessive heat and pesky insects with it.
Jury selection for a man accused of killing one person and injuring more than a dozen others in a mass shooting on downtown Austin's Sixth Street is set to begin Monday.
Austin is the best taco city in the United States, according to data from a recent study conducted by Real Estate Witch. Austin has won the No. 1 spot two years in a row.
For the second straight day, Texas' main electrical grid operator is asking Texans to conserve electricity use.
U.S. District Judge David Hittner will hear arguments starting at 10:30 a.m. at the federal courthouse in Houston related to a legal challenge against Senate Bill 12, which will take effect next Friday on Sept. 1. The five plaintiffs include the Austin-based drag performer Brigitte Bandit and Extragrams, a local drag performance company.
The U.S. Men's National team is returning to Austin for another international soccer event.
For the second time this month, the Austin Disaster Relief Network (ADRN) is working to help people rebuild their lives after two separate, devastating apartment fires.
If you've ever been stuck in traffic, only to realize it was all because of a crash on the other side of the highway, that is a common experience thanks to rubbernecking
The City of Austin said a road will be closed starting Saturday on a project to reduce the risk of flooding in a northeast Austin neighborhood.
The prison unit in Huntsville caught fire overnight and still burns this morning as fire crews work diligently to put the fire out.
In a meeting Thursday, the board for Leander ISD decided it would file an exception for House Bill 3., which was set to place armed security officers at every campus.
The San Marcos CISD said Thursday a $1,500 grant will help create a new science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) club at San Marcos High School (SMHS) and give students a chance to attend out-of-state STEM camps.
A Silver Alert was issued for a Copperas Cove woman diagnosed with a cognitive impairment.
Some believe Texas to be an entirely flat, barren wasteland full of tumbleweeds, and while there are parts of the Lone State State that embody that stereotype (i.e. most of West Texas), it is not entirely accurate for other parts of the state.
The Salvation Army said Thursday its recent fundraiser, the Annual Day of Giving, exceeded its $850,000 goal.
The Homeless Student Assistance Fund increased in the number of donations and donors after a vital name change made earlier this year.
Less than a day after police in Pasadena, Texas, identified a person of interest in connection with the murder of an 11-year-old girl, authorities in Louisiana arrested the suspect believed to be involved.
Anderson picked up its 12th Taco Shack Bowl victory in emphatic fashion 42-0 over McCallum while Manor scored a 39-26 win over LBJ in a battle of east Austin schools.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — As growth in Lake Travis ISD continues, the district will soon begin work to add another high school. "I have seen it come towards us, just the growth on 71," said Lake Travis ISD parent Jessica Walker. "I have seen new elementary school's built, I have seen new middle schools built." The [...]
It's a tale of two efforts to house people who are homeless by the City of Austin.
The Austin Police Department is asking for the public's help identifying three suspects in a robbery at a 7-Eleven in downtown Austin last week, APD said in a news release Thursday.
A man was sentenced in July for murder in connection with a 2021 offense, according to Travis County court documents.
Raul Meza, 62, is a convicted murderer who now faces charges in the 2019 death of his neighbor and the May 2023 death of an 80-year-old man.
