Portrait of Opal Lee, 'Grandmother of Juneteenth,' unveiled in Texas Senate
Lee's portrait will be just the second to honor an African-American Texan, according to the Texas Legislative Black Caucus.
Lee's portrait will be just the second to honor an African-American Texan, according to the Texas Legislative Black Caucus.
Austin Police are investigating a suspicious death in east Austin Wednesday afternoon.
Janice Erickson, 70, died on the scene.
It happened shortly before 11 a.m. on Jan. 28. Austin Police Department officers responded to a single vehicle crash in the 10800 block of Harris Branch.
Destruction wrought by an early-February ice storm locally felled many of our local trees and greatly reduced their canopies, opening wounds that could lead to more dead trees, arborists warn.
Two Texans will take snaps in Super Bowl LVII on Sunday — Jalen Hurts from the Houston area and Patrick Mahomes who grew up outside Tyler — and that's 40% of the total signal-callers from the Lone Star State to start the big game.
The order came as a precautionary measure at 12 p.m. Wednesday amid reports of an armed person near campus.
AUSTIN (KXAN) -- The City of Austin has been ordered to pay LoneStar Airport Holdings and Texas Capital Bank $90 million as a result of the city's airport expansion and eminent domain efforts, according to reporting from the Austin Business Journal. As part of expansion plans for Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, the City of Austin authorized [...]
As Central Texas pivots into recovery mode following last week's ice storm, many properties have been littered by fallen trees, branches and discarded limbs.
A therapeutic riding center in Dripping Springs empowering people through horseback riding is expanding.
Anderson Dixon, 20, of Hammond, Louisiana was wanted by New Orleans Police Department for a November 2022 murder
A recent expedition to Patagonia by researchers from the University of Texas may give us a better understanding of the last days of the dinosaurs. Fossils, including those of a Megaraptor, were found in the dig. The species existed between 66 to 75 million years ago in the Late-Cretaceous period, shortly before the species was killed off.
According to the Council Agenda, the vote was to repeal the Meet and Confer agreement between the San Marcos Police Officers’ Association and the City of San Marcos.
. In this update to our Season 1 of the "Catalyst" podcast about missing persons in Texas, one woman’s search for her missing brother leads to the streets of Austin, as a legislator considers strengthening a new state law.
“John and Joseph’s Law,” which went into effect in September 2021, requires police across Texas to enter cases into the national, public database within 60 days of someone filing an official missing persons report with that agency.
According to DPS, the Williamson County Sheriff's Office says Aisha Ortiz was last seen on Scenic Drive.
In the month of January, the police department reported 18 car burglaries with three guns stolen. Police said that's a 16.6% rate of car burglaries that result in stolen guns.
The Austin Police Department responded to a SWAT incident in north Austin Tuesday, according to police.
(KSNF/KODE) — A passenger who left his wallet on a plane, is hopefully getting it back thanks to his Apple AirTag. Missouri resident, John Lewis, said he simply forgot his wallet on an American Airlines aircraft. Although the airline says it couldn’t find the wallet, Lewis saw his wallet fly to 35 different cities thanks [...]
Traffic violations have landed a San Augustine man in the Shelby County jail.
An Austin family has to balance significant storm damage with tending to their teenage daughter with cancer.
State Sen. Roland Gutierrez (D-San Antonio) announced another round of school safety legislation Tuesday, flanked by families who lost children in the school shootings at Robb Elementary and Santa Fe High School.
Information centers opened Tuesday at several Austin and Travis County community centers, the release said. Information will be available at the information centers to help answer community members' questions and provide updates on recovery resources.
AUSTIN (KXAN)-- After nearly a week without power, Daylon Garcia was finally able to flip on the lights at Curra's Hyde Park on Tuesday afternoon. "It was a lot of joy and then, 'Okay, we got a lot of work to do now,'" he said. He said he realized last Wednesday they lost power. "From [...]
A suspect involved in an officer-involved crash during a police chase in San Marcos Tuesday was still at large after it neared Austin, according to a City of San Marcos spokesperson.