Mayor Lee Leffingwell announced Tuesday the designation of Jacmel, Haiti, as a Friendship City of Austin. Jacmel is often compared to Austin, Leffingwell said in a press release, a similarity primarily...

Austin grocers and non-profits work together to bring food that stores can’t sell to people who need it. Through reclaimed food efforts, they salvage goods that would otherwise be thrown out...

Gov. Rick Perry’s “The Response” proved less controversial than expected, but at the state Capitol, protesters drove home a radical message — ‘Rick Perry: Bad for Texas,...

After demonstrations by both supporters and opponents of a proposed ban on plastic single-use shopping bags, Austin City Council members voted to continue research on the ban 12 hours after their meeting...

City Council will meet today to discuss more than 50 different issues facing Austin, including a potential ban on plastic bags, changing city council election dates and delaying implementation of a...

Record-high temperatures this summer have paved the way for record-high power usage in Austin with a new electricity demand record of 66,867 megawatts between 4 and 5 p.m. on Monday. This peak demand...

The sizzle of steak, the music of flutes, acoustic guitars and Judy Garland’s “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” echoed through the Mexican American Cultural Center when local teachers and...

A partnership between the Inside Books Project and a local thrift store is helping put more books in the hands of Texas prison inmates looking to entertain and educate themselves while incarcerated. The...

The Austin City Council voted today to consider what the costs would be to halt construction on Water Treatment Plant No. 4 for five or more years. The resolution passed 5-2 with Mayor Lee Leffingwell...

The Austin City Council will hear more than 130 agenda items today during its first regular meeting after a month-long summer break. In addition to routine business, the council will vote on several...

A group representing an Austin-based carpenters union has been at the West Mall every weekday morning since July 19 protesting against what they say are unfair labor practices by a contractor working at...

Parker Burton watches as Regan and Loran Johnansen play xylophones inside the hollowed torso of a cow statue titled “I’ve Got the Moosic In Me” by artist Kati Alcantara, Wednesday....