With Austin voters rejecting Proposition 1 on Tuesday, the city will have to look at new options in order to continue its efforts to improve Austin’s transportation infrastructure.
Prop. 1 proposed...
Professors and campaign professionals gathered at the Belo Center for New Media on Wednesday to dissect and analyze Tuesday’s election results at an event hosted by the New Politics Forum at the...
City Council members Kathie Tovo and Chris Riley will face each other again in a runoff election on Dec. 16 as neither received a majority of the vote in Tuesday's District 9 council race.
Tuesday’s...
The Austin mayoral race will go into a runoff election between attorney Steve Adler and City Council member Mike Martinez.
At press time, Adler led the eight-man race with 37 percent of the vote,...
Exhaust fumes masked the view of the Capitol. Crowds lined the street to watch the red and blue metallic blur rip through the city. The 750-horsepower Formula One race car came to a halt, revealing the...
On Guadalupe Street, bikers can stay in a protected lane off to the side and clearly marked with bright green paint. The lane stretches from Martin Luther King Boulevard to 24th Street. But after that,...
With Election Day nearing, Sheryl Cole, mayor pro tem and mayoral candidate, encouraged students to research their local government candidates and vote at a talk in Welch Hall on Wednesday.
At...
The Austin Transportation Department is developing a new phone app that could help students avoid traffic when biking to campus.
The app, which is being developed with the Kimley-Horn consulting company,...
Austin offers a variety of ways for city-dwellers to dive into the Halloween spirit this week, giving the UT community the opportunity to add a little comedy, roller skating and live music to its Halloween...
As part of the ongoing Austin Arts and Service Celebration, BR McDonald, founder of the Veteran Artist Program, moderated a discussion Friday at the SAC with Austin-based veteran artists Jenn Hassin and...
The Austin Police Department launched a new bicycle safety campaign last week in an effort to decrease collisions between bicyclists and drivers in the city.
The initiative, known as WAVE, is a general...
For an estimated 40,000 attendees, the Capitol and the surrounding downtown area became a literary wonderland over the weekend during the 19th annual Texas Book Festival.
More than 80 exhibitor...
