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 24, 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 24, 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 24, 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 20, 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,...
Editor's note: This article was originally published with a photo of a different complex, not Rise at West Campus. The Texan regrets this error.
Rise at West Campus announced in an email to its future...
Karina Kumar, General News Reporter
• August 6, 2023
Renting your first apartment or house can be difficult, especially if you’ve never had to deal with a landlord or a lease before. Sometimes you can end up in bad situations like an apartment with...
Editor's note: This article was originally published on Aug. 3, 2023, but some facts were updated on Aug. 6, 2023.
Austinites who frequent the Ann and Roy Butler Hike-and-Bike Trail at Lady Bird...
Twenty-one percent of material recycled at UT is contaminated and must take a longer, more costly route to the landfill.
“We can’t process (contamination) or sell it,” said Alexandra Gyarfas,...
