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Austin keeps cold weather shelters open through week as overnight freezes continue
Austin will keep its cold weather shelters activated nightly through the rest of the week as freezing overnight temperatures continue across Central Texas, city officials said Thursday. The primary...
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Why Austin ISD is writing targeted and local improvement plans—and what changed in Texas school ratings
Austin ISD families have heard a lot of new and unfamiliar language in the past two years: “D” and “F” campuses, “targeted improvement plans,” “local improvement plans,” “turnaround action plans,” ...
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Jesús Aguirre takes helm of Austin Parks and Recreation, pledging transparency and a listening-first approach
Jesús Aguirre has been appointed director of the Austin Parks and Recreation Department (PARD), stepping into a leadership role that City Hall has framed as pivotal for a fast-growing city and a pa...
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WARN notices in Texas: what they are, why they matter, and what recent layoff patterns say about the state’s economy
A WARN notice can feel like a cold, bureaucratic phrase—until it lands in a community where a shift change suddenly becomes a countdown. In Texas, these notices are often the first public signal th...
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Understanding TCEQ Notices of Violation in Texas: What an NOV Is, How It’s Issued, and How the Public Can Track Them
A Notice of Violation, or NOV, is the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s written way of saying: during an official inspection or investigation, the agency found specific instances where a ...
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In the Heat of the Pass: How Culinary Comrades Turned Austin’s Local-Food Ideal Into a Team Sport
The kitchen at La Condesa didn’t sound like a restaurant so much as a rehearsal—metal tongs clicking like castanets, pans hissing, a low chorus of “behind” and “hot,” and the soft, urgent scrape of...
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Blankets, basslines, and belonging: Rock the Park returns to Mueller for a 17th-season celebration of Austin music
The sun starts to drop behind the trees at Mueller Lake Park, turning the water into a ribbon of copper. Parents tug wagons and tote diaper bags; couples arrive with dogs on leashes; kids do that p...
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How Texas gun law loopholes left an accused abuser armed—until West Sixth Street became a crime scene
How did Texas gun law loopholes enable the recent West Sixth Street mass shooting in Austin by a suspect with a documented history of domestic violence?
That question hangs over downtown like the ...
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The weighted cape crusader: In Austin, a barber makes room for kids who feel too much
The first thing you notice isn’t the scissors.
It’s the bubbles.
Inside Cultivate Behavioral Health & Education in northwest Austin, a vertical bubble machine stands like a tall aquarium lamp...
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Austin Lace-Up Moment: Race to Cure Sarcoma brings the city together at Lake Park Amphitheatre
Austin has never needed much convincing to show up for its neighbors—especially when the cause is health, hope, and the kind of support that can carry families through their hardest seasons. On Mar...
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Austin ISD faces TEA investigation over student walkouts as district cites limits on restraint and state warns against political facilitation
Austin Independent School District is under investigation by the Texas Education Agency following recent student walkouts, with district leaders and state officials offering sharply contrasting vie...
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A Birthday Song in Bronze and Stone: UT Austin’s Tower Turns 89
The first notes of “Happy Birthday” didn’t drift across the Forty Acres so much as they rang—bright, deliberate, and unmistakably UT—spilling from the UT Tower high above the live oaks and limeston...
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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...