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AISD faces intensifying pressure as anti-ICE student walkouts disrupt campuses and trigger state investigations
Ongoing student walkouts protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Austin Independent School District (AISD) schools have prompted increasingly urgent responses from district officials...
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As data centers surge across Texas, residents press city halls to slow down—while officials weigh growth against water and power strain
Texas’ rapid buildout of large-scale data centers—facilities that house the servers powering everything from streaming and banking to artificial intelligence—has collided with a rising wave of loca...
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Uvalde CISD’s 11,500-document release lays bare a familiar pattern: warnings, weak follow-through—and a long fight to see the record
The newest cache of Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District records—roughly 11,500 documents totaling an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 pages—arrives with the weight of a courtroom order and th...
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Big Nuzzl’s Yappy Hour is Austin’s newest way to meet someone—starting with the dog
Austin’s social calendar rarely needs help getting crowded, but this weekend it’s gaining a fresh kind of buzz: the kind that starts at leash level.
Big Nuzzl—a new dating app built specifically f...
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A Lasting Legacy in East Austin: A New Travel Guide Maps the Black Landmarks That Built—and Still Shape—the City
East Austin is a place where history can feel like it’s always in motion. New buildings rise, longtime businesses fight for breathing room, and familiar streets take on fresh names and new crowds. ...
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About 100 Dripping Springs High students walk out to protest immigration enforcement; drivers ticketed along march route
About 100 students walked out of Dripping Springs High School during the school day Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026, staging a peaceful protest against immigration enforcement policies as law enforcement c...
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Zero-Proof Dry January in Austin: 18 Places to Go When You’re Skipping the Booze
Alcohol is playing a smaller role in American life than it has in generations, and the shift is starting to show up in how—and where—people choose to go out. Just 54% of U.S. adults now say they dr...
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Full Throttle Weekend: NASCAR Roars Back to Austin’s COTA with Stars, Stats, and a Fan-Focused Spectacle
Austin’s late-winter calendar is about to get loud again.
From February 27 to March 1, 2026, NASCAR’s annual stop at Circuit of The Americas returns for its sixth running, turning the city’s signa...
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Austin’s citizens redistricting commission moves to hire staff as budget and Christmas deadline tighten
Austin’s Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission—created by voters with the idea that everyday residents, not politicians, would redraw City Council district lines—is now moving to hire profe...
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Austin’s District 1 Was Built Around a Border. Now Transit and Land Deals Could Decide Its Future.
District 1 begins close to the familiar density of Central Austin and then runs north toward Howard Lane, fanning out into some of the city’s broadest open spaces east of State Highway 130. On maps...
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From Compass-Point Corridors to Street-Level Rail: How Austin’s Urban Rail Arguments Hardened—and Evolved—Over a Decade
In Austin, the fight over rail has rarely been about whether the city needs better transit. It has been about where to put fixed-guideway investment first, what counts as evidence for choosing a co...
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Austin Planning Commission proposes two-tier rules for short-term rentals, adding limits, buffers and registration
Austin’s Planning Commission has recommended a new set of tighter regulations for short-term rentals, proposing a two-tier system that would treat owner-occupied homes differently from non-owner-oc...
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Understanding the 2013 AISD bond election: What Austin voters are deciding
Polls opened across Austin on Saturday for the Austin Independent School District’s $892 million bond election, a four-part package that would fund everything from campus repairs and technology upg...
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Mueller vehicle burglary leads Austin police to seek suspect after declined Walgreens card attempt
A vehicle burglary outside a busy Mueller coffee stop has turned into a public hunt for a suspected credit-card user, as Austin police say a woman tried — and failed — to run stolen cards at a near...