Former District 7 City Council candidates Adam Powell and Todd Shaw announced Thursday that they were endorsing Mike Siegel in the runoff election to fill the seat currently held by Mayor Pro Tem ...

Last week, approximately 60 percent of Travis County voters approved Proposition A – a property tax increase that will expand ...

After more than half a dozen community members took the dais to speak against an East Austin rezoning request, the Planning ...

The Tourism Commission has changed its stance from last month and approved a recommendation that City Council adopt the Planning Department’s Equity-Based Preservation Plan, which intended to guide ...

The Music Commission has signaled it intends to ask the city to waive fees and streamline the administrative processes ...

Kirk Watson has officially won a new term as Austin’s next mayor. Watson led his four challengers on Nov. 5, but did not have enough votes to claim victory outright. He had to win a majority of the ...

On Tuesday, the Travis County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to extend its opioid overdose crisis declaration to October 2026 and to authorize $100,000 worth of naloxone, a lifesaving overdose ...

Since 2020, Austin’s tree regulations and protections have preserved a total of 1,397,678 inches of trees within city limits.

Consultants hired to investigate an ethics complaint against former interim City Manager Jesús Garza have concluded that he ...

Austin Mayor Kirk Watson is ahead in the city’s mayoral race with just over 50% of the vote, according to unofficial voting ...

The latest report on downtown Austin’s economic and cultural health shows the city core is seeing ongoing vacancies and low utilization of office space in a trend that has caused a flattening of many ...

As its end-of-year deadline approaches, Austin Energy is busy crunching numbers, hoping to finally nail down a ...