Sarah Brager, Senior News Reporter
• August 31, 2023
The Hole in the Wall, a music venue in West Campus, obtained a new 20-year lease after receiving $1.6 million in assistance from the City of Austin through the Iconic Venue Fund.
Hole in the Wall is...
Pili Saravia, Senior News Reporter
• August 30, 2023
Mayor Kirk Watson signed a wildfire disaster declaration on Aug. 15 after prolonged hot and dry weather conditions put the city at “critical risk of wildfire,” according to a press release.
“A...
Mason Rouser, Senior News Reporter
• August 30, 2023
The city of Austin was selected as one of 24 cities to participate in the Cities Forward program earlier this month, a new initiative promoting collaboration between the United States, Latin America and...
A historic flood ripped through the city of Austin in 1935, tearing down a wooden bath house that once inhabited Barton Springs as it shredded its way through downtown and hurled its way south. After the...
Isabella Zeff, Senior News Reporter
• August 28, 2023
The Austin City Council adopted a $5.5 billion budget, the largest in the city’s history, for the 2023-24 fiscal year on Aug. 16.
The budget, approved in a 10-1 vote, includes the largest ever Austin...
Sarah Brager, Senior News Reporter
• August 25, 2023
The Austin City Council will not vote on the proposal to renovate Zilker Park and will indefinitely table the plan because of a divided community response, Mayor Kirk Watson announced in a statement on...
Mason Rouser, Senior News Reporter
• August 25, 2023
The West Campus Ambassadors program is the newest initiative in an $8 million investment to increase safety in West Campus, UT President Jay Hartzell and UT System Board of Regents chairman Kevin Eltife...
Reece Tincher, General News Reporter
• August 25, 2023
Mayor Kirk Watson reflected on a changing Austin and dealing with its current affordability and climate crisis at a University Democrats’ Q&A on Aug. 23.
Watson was a guest speaker at the organization’s...
Isabella Zeff, Senior News Reporter
• August 23, 2023
Adam Smith left his friend’s Austin apartment in the early hours of July 20 ready to drive home, but instead of seeing his Hyundai Elantra, he found an empty parking space.
“I went back out (to...
“It's so niche,” said Adam Powell, owner of @adampowellatx on TikTok. “There's no way the algorithm’s ever going to pick this up.”
Twenty-nine-year-old Powell grew up in Leander, north of...
Raiyan Shaik, Senior News Reporter
• August 21, 2023
The UT System Board of Regents announced plans to build a new medical center on the site of the Frank Erwin Center during a press conference Aug. 14. The University of Texas at Austin Medical Center will...
Austin’s record 31-day streak of consecutive 100-degree days has not only affected its human residents but its animal residents, too.
“(Heat) is dehydrating animals a lot quicker,” Hayley Hudnall,...
