Every year, city officials navigate public safety challenges presented by the South By Southwest festival, from gun and drug seizures to shots fired. However, an Austin Police Department official said...

Austin’s famous bat population — the world’s largest urban bat colony — faces threats from potential displacement and disease. To protect the critters, the Animal Advisory Commission unanimously...

Austin Transit Partnership proposed five new potential light rail lines for Project Connect on March 21, including one connecting UT to Yellow Jacket Lane through downtown.   “We are proud of...

The city of Austin and the U.S. Department of Transportation signed an agreement last month to investigate ways to fund mobility and infrastructure projects within the city, such as Project Connect and...

Amid long-term police shortages, the Texas Department of Public Safety will provide officers to the Austin Police Department as part of a partnership to address public safety concerns, the city announced...

Texans gathered at the Texas Capitol on Monday to protest bills that would prohibit physicians from providing gender-affirming healthcare to transgender youth.  If passed, House Bill 1686 and Senate...

In an ever-evolving city and campus, UT students are used to seeing the buildings and businesses that occupy the University area change year by year. Although the region continues to grow and adapt, the...

The Housing Authority of the City of Austin released plans to provide 300 project-based vouchers for Austin’s vulnerable and unhoused population earlier this month during a press conference.  Partially...

The Austin music community came together to support Troy Pruitt, a long-time door attendant at the local West Campus bar Hole in the Wall, after he was seriously injured when hit by a car as he was...

New construction on shared pathways into Zilker Park started recently to make the park more accessible to patrons without cars, according to a Feb. 21 press release from the City of Austin. Holly Hawk,...

CW: This article mentions police brutality.  A group of student protesters gathered at the Texas Capitol with megaphones in hand, chanting “No justice, no peace!” and “All of the power, to all...

Last Thursday, the Austin City Council announced a working plan to cooperate with local universities to examine possible solutions to the lack of affordable student housing near campuses, like UT’s...