Dockless electric scooter companies Bird and LimeBike have returned to the streets of Austin, along with new competition, after temporarily removing their scooters in April to comply with the city’s...
International bubble tea chain Gong Cha has officially opened its first Austin location in the Dobie Mall. The Taiwan-based tea and coffee shop offers chilled tea drinks to students looking to combat the...
Capital Metro made changes to more than 50 bus routes in the Austin area on June 3, including routes to and from the University.
High-frequency service was added to bus stops along Martin Luther...
A new action plan could be bold enough to end homelessness in Austin, said Ann Howard, executive director of the Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO).
On April 26, Austin City Council...
Students opening their Bird or LimeBike dockless electric scooter apps over the weekend were not greeted with the usual flood of icons signifying available scooters in the campus area.
In response...
The Goodall Wooten is a plain, high-rise dormitory building located on The Drag. It’s known by residents as “The Woo,” and many who pass by it barely even notice it’s there.
Some...
Last week, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a nationwide injunction, ruling it was unconstitutional for the federal government to withhold funds from local jurisdictions that do not comply...
A new poll from Elon University indicates that Austin residents may not be thrilled if Amazon decides to plant its second home base here.
The poll, released earlier this month, found that two potential...
Travis County now has the highest total number of registered voters ever in the county with more than 740,000 people registered.
The county broke its record last month when it surpassed the previous...
Approximately 1,000 people participated in a national walkout against gun violence on Friday at the Texas Capitol with dozens of UT students and nine registered Austin area
schools present.
University...
In front of a crowd of dozens, Justin Morris, a radio-television-film freshman, lip-synced and danced to the signature Congo sounds and electronic guitar riffs of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez’s...
Out of the total homeless population in Austin, 32 percent are chronically homeless, according to the Ending Community Homelessness Coalition. A group of students started taking steps to lower that statistic...
