The Pflugerville Independent School District Superintendent Douglas Killian said the PfISD Board of Trustees workshop scheduled for Thursday was canceled due to the district not having access to Internet or phone lines, according to an email sent to parents.
Del Valle High School senior Noel Mendez is just one of 400 high school seniors across the country named a recipient. The scholarship sought out eligible students from underserved communities.
The House Public Health Committee voted out Senate Bill 490 on Wednesday. The legislation pushes for medical billing transparency by requiring itemized medical invoices for patients.
The major park redesign along Waller Creek at the Waterloo Greenway began Wednesday.
The Austin City Council approved a settlement with Saraneka Alexander, a then-pregnant woman who was hit with a non-lethal round during a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020.
City of Taylor leaders said interest from businesses that supply or distribute elements that would support production at Samsung's semiconductor plant has increased and accelerated in recent months.
More than 465,000 Texans will receive money from Intuit TurboTax after a 2022 settlement with the tax filing service.
Texas State University's College of Education announced Tuesday a new, fully online Master of Education in Secondary Education with a concentration in teaching advanced academics.
“This sudden influx highlights the crisis we’ve been facing regarding space,” Chief Animal Services Officer Don Bland said in the release.
Trees help reduce heat in cities, decrease storm-water runoff, improve air quality and help remove and store greenhouse gases. Our partners over at Climate Central took an in-depth look at impacts for 242 cities across the United States.
A Star Wars here on Earth: two universities, a million-dollar prize and a race to space. Students with the University of Texas are building an advanced rocket as part of the Base-11 Space Challenge.
Austin City Council will meet Thursday. With dozens of items on the agenda, here's some of what we're watching.
- Austin City council member Chito Vela placed a resolution on the agenda that would direct the Watershed Protection, Austin Resource Recovery, and the Parks and Recreation departments to quickly clear creek beds of vegetative debris.
Hundreds of students within Georgetown ISD will be participating in Bike & Roll to School Day this morning.
Some state senators are raising concerns that a bill intended to save a state park from permanent closure and development could open Texas up to possible litigation.
On-board video showed a crash between a Austin-Travis County EMS ambulance crashing with another vehicle at an intersection in north Austin Wednesday, Travis County Emergency Services District No. 2 confirmed in a statement to KXAN.
A grand slam by Texas shortstop Viviana Martinez in the bottom of the fifth pushed the score past the 8-run mercy rule limit and sent the Longhorns to victory in walk-off fashion.
Manor ISD has named a new superintendent. Dr. Robert Sormani took over as superintendent on May 1.
A grand jury did not return an indictment for two officers involved in a December 2022 deadly shooting, Hays County Criminal District Attorney Kelly Higgins said in a news release. The grand jury determined the shooting was justified.
Attorneys say the former fire commissioner was captured on video spraying a group of homeless people with bear spray earlier this month.
Travis County Judge Andy Brown said recovery efforts from the city and county level have reached a cumulative $56.8 million. That number made up from expenses for things like debris cleanup, overtime for Austin Energy employees, and first responders being on the job.
AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Former residents of the Congress Mobile Home Park filed a lawsuit Wednesday against California developer Reza Paydar, claiming that he violated the Deceptive Trade Practice Act (DTPA). Specifically, the plaintiffs claim that they were not given the legal amount of time to move out of their former homes. KXAN reached out to Paydar [...]
On Wednesday, the City of Dallas confirmed in a statement that a number of servers were compromised with ransomware.
New polling out Wednesday shows U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's approval rating among Texas voters increased from a net negative to a net positive, as the incumbent senator gets his first major Democratic challenger for his seat in 2024.
The Austin Police Department released an update surrounding an April 27 homicide investigation.