Pili Saravia, General News Reporter
• July 24, 2023
The Austin City Council discussed 196 items on July 20, including modifying SMART housing policies, reducing the city’s oversight in the watershed department and increasing infrastructure for middle-class...
After extensive renovations, the Texas Memorial Museum changed its name to the Texas Science and Natural History Museum on July 7 in preparation for its fall reopening.
“The building is always...
Austin Public Library’s central branch hosted the grand opening of a new digital makerspace on July 5, unveiling free access to various digital editing and creation programs.
“We know that technology...
Mason Rouser, Senior News Reporter
• July 12, 2023
Interim city manager Jesús Garza and Mayor Kirk Watson announced that a partnership between the Austin Police Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety is again suspended after its reinstatement...
After its approval by Austin Parks and Recreation on May 22, the Zilker Park Vision Plan has received public opposition online from several groups. Save Zilker Park, a movement against the plan, has grown...
Radio-Television-Film professor Karen Kocher created the Barton Creek Time Stream, a multimedia educational website dedicated to telling the history of Barton Creek’s conservation efforts.
Looking...
In light of community backlash, a revised partnership between the Austin Police Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety resumed this month after a pause in May.
The partnership was...
Last month, Austin broke its heat-index record after 118-degree temperatures were recorded at Camp Mabry on June 21, according to the National Weather Service.
Texas, among other states in the...
Hundreds of nurses went on strike on June 27 outside the Ascension Seton Medical Center, marking the largest nurses' strike in Texas history, according to a National Nurses United press release.
“We...
On June 6, Austin city leaders officially approved Project Connect, the city’s estimated $4.5 to $4.8 billion project. Project Connect would create nearly 10 miles of light rail network and serve...
A UT study published on June 1 found that vulnerable East Austin neighborhoods were more likely to be at risk for COVID-19 hospitalizations despite recording fewer officially reported cases.
“Really...
Yesterday evening, the community gathered at Eastwoods Park near UT to celebrate Juneteenth with speeches, barbecues and educational displays organized by the University’s Institute for Urban Policy...
