Austin Mayor Says the Key To Keeping the City 'Weird' Is Ensuring a Robust Supply of Housing—or People 'Will Go Elsewhere'
Austin Mayor Kirk Watson has said that the key to living up to the city’s famous motto to stay "weird" will be to ensure that ...
Part of West 6th Street to remain closed overnight after glass panels fall from high-rise building
A section of 6th Street west of Congress Avenue in Downtown Austin has been closed after glass panels fell from a high-rise ...
32 people displaced, 4 animals dead following 3-building fire in far east Austin
AUSTIN, Texas — Thirty-two people are without a home following a structure fire that spread to three separate buildings in ...
600-foot towers on the Drag? Austin proposal would allow taller building near campus
Greg Anderson, a member of the city's Planning Commission, said most developers he's heard from don't want to build up to 600 feet, but they do want to exceed the 300-foot limit currently in place for ...
The Texas Tribune on MSN3d
Texas Southern University asks for $120 million to replace aging law school
Texas Southern University is asking lawmakers for $120 million to replace its law school building after the organization that ...
Revisiting 1985: The year mastodon fever gripped Austin
In 1985, construction workers discovered the bones of massive animals that once ruled Austin, in one of the city's most ...
The Texas Tribune on MSN6d
With crumbling public health infrastructure, rural Texas scrambles to respond to measles
The measles outbreak in rural Texas has exposed how hospital buildings are ill-equipped. Meanwhile, long distances between ...
KUT3d
Texas gives Elon Musk’s SpaceX $17.3M to expand site near Austin
Starlink, a division of Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX that provides satellite internet service across the world, received ...
KUT3d
As wildfire anxiety grows, Austin plans to designate half the city as at risk of fire damage
About two-thirds of land parcels in the city would be considered at risk of damage from wildfire, up from about 35% a decade ...
The Texas Tribune on MSN10d
Texas House majority signs on to new bill restricting the use of bathrooms in public buildings by transgender people
AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) — A bill filed in the Texas House co-authored ... prisons and bathrooms and locker rooms of state and county buildings are segregated by state definitions of sex, and create ...
$70M facelift will bring the University of Texas Tower back to its former, gold glory: 'Hugely overdue'
UT"s Tower still looms large but has quite literally lost its shine, and officials want to bring the flagship’s iconic landmark back to its former glory.
KXAN10d
Texas House majority signs on to new bill restricting the use of bathrooms in public buildings by transgender people
AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) — A bill filed in the Texas ... prisons and bathrooms and locker rooms of state and county buildings are segregated by state definitions of sex, and create fines for ...