The Austin City Council voted to approve increased water and energy rates at its annual budget meeting Tuesday.
The council began reading the 2014-2015 fiscal year budget Monday and adopted the...
The Austin Police Department has proposed plans for a new booking facility near Cameron Road that could save the city money and simplify the current booking process.
Brian Manley, Austin Police assistant...
Players is closing down after 33 years of feeding the UT community’s late-night burger cravings.
The University purchased the restaurant in 2012 for University expansion from owners Carlos Oliveira...
The Austin City Council unanimously voted Thursday to further explore the idea of gender-neutral bathrooms and another to ban driving or biking while using a cellphone.
Sponsored by Council...
Five people were arrested on Guadalupe Street on Wednesday for obstructing traffic while protesting looming closures of abortion clinics in Texas.
The protesters are from the activist organization...
Five of Austin’s mayoral candidates answered questions about public transportation Wednesday at a debate held on campus.
Candidates Todd Phelps, Mike Martinez, Randall Stevens, Sheryl Cole...
Tuesday, construction crews broke ground on the Seton Medical Center at UT, a $295 million teaching hospital.
Located on the site of the Dell Medical School on Red River and 15th streets, the 211-bed...
An employee at the Whataburger on Guadalupe Street near campus was diagnosed with hepatitis A, public health officials reported Thursday.
Austin-Travis County Health and Human Services officials said...
Bags of cotton candy, circus hats and a circus uniform disappeared from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in one of two thefts last week at the Frank Erwin Center.
According to...
Update (6:00 p.m.): The shelter provided by the Red Cross at the Recreational Sports Center officially shut down around 3:30 p.m. on Monday afternoon because no more students had come to utilize...
Several court cases related to the University and the Austin area have progressed over the summer. Below is an update on the status of three major cases:
Kendall Sanders and Montrel Meander
The preliminary...
The final ballot list for the Nov. 4 local elections was released Aug. 18, revealing 78 candidates for 11 positions in Austin’s first geographically represented city council.
This will be...
