Austin City Council approved a new public comment ordinance giving individuals at least two minutes of speaking time per item on May 30.
Under the new ordinance, people who sign up to speak at city...
Erika Pernis, Senior News Reporter
• June 20, 2024
The City of Austin is projected to see hotter and more extreme temperatures, longer heat waves and fewer periods of colder weather due to climate change over the next century, according to the first report...
Heat-related illnesses have spiked 90% since last year, and temperatures will continue to rise in Central Texas throughout the summer.
Austin-Travis County EMS reported 270 heat-related illness...
Laura Rivera, General News Reporter
• June 17, 2024
Zoox, an autonomous car company owned by Amazon, announced June 5 that it will begin test-driving its vehicles in Austin in July.
According to Zoox’s website, the company currently operates in San...
Erika Pernis, Senior News Reporter
• June 17, 2024
The Austin Police Department kicked off its Drive Sober Summer No Refusal Initiative on June 1 to give police officers the ability to better enforce driving while intoxicated laws. The initiative will...
UT Austin dismissed 19 to 20 communications and marketing staff to prioritize “managing reputational issues and crises.” Their last day is Aug. 31.
A vice president notified employees in the University...
Erika Pernis, Senior News Reporter
• June 16, 2024
A Travis County judge dismissed Attorney General Ken Paxton's lawsuit on Wednesday that challenged an ordinance decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana in Austin and other Texas cities.
Austin...
Laura Rivera, General News Reporter
• June 16, 2024
The UT Disability Cultural Center held its first summer adapted tennis session on Monday at Charles Alan Wright Fields at the Berry M. Whitaker Sports Complex.
The annual sessions are hosted in partnership...
Wheatsville Food Co-Op, Austin’s cooperatively-owned grocery store and market, announced the closure of its Guadalupe Street location after four decades of service in a special edition newsletter.
General...
The Austin Transit Partnership entered the Project Development phase for the Austin Light Rail Phase 1 Project, one of the beginning components of Project Connect, late last month after earning a federal...
The College of Liberal Arts and the College of Natural Sciences collaborated on a new podcast called “AI for the Rest of Us,” intending to bridge the gap between artificial intelligence experts and...
