April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. The city of Austin has garnered national attention for its prior failures to investigate cases and support survivors in their healing and, more ...

Austin Public Health leaders are working to manage an ongoing budget crisis caused by federal funding cuts that have destabilized programs across the city. City Council’s Public Health Committee heard ...

Two competing bills in the Texas Legislature aim to tackle the issue of reforming the funding structure of the Austin Firefighters Retirement Fund. In a message on the City Council Message Board ...

When someone calls 911 for help in Austin, about 93 percent of those calls are answered within 15 seconds. But once those ...

A new report from the Office of the City Auditor concludes that, while the city has made notable progress in preparing for ...

The Planning Commission approved several proposed amendments to an amendment of the city’s Technical Building Code during a ...

Austin City Council members celebrated the resounding defeat of House Bill 274 on Wednesday, a bill that would have created ...

The former chief information officer for Austin Water misused the city’s resources in an effort to find out the identity of ...

Austin city leaders marked the 30th anniversary of a program that provides free vaccines to children as Texas faces its worst ...

A record-breaking 13,210 evictions were filed in Travis County in 2024, according to a memo released last week from BASTA ...

Ahead of a planned rollout in May, the city is hoping a series of workshops this month will generate interest in its updated business expansion and upcoming place-based enhancement incentive programs.

Two years ago, after Austin’s lush urban tree canopy froze and downed power lines, leaving hundreds of thousands without ...