The 2026 Austin City Council elections won’t take place for 283 days but eight challengers have already appointed campaign ...

Council members attending Wednesday’s Audit & Finance Committee meeting had many questions about two proposals to audit all ...

As the local union for city and county employees, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFSCME Local 1624, is getting ready for what could be a difficult battle over possible ...

Anyone who has been to the Austin airport can tell you that AUS, the official code for Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, is bursting at the seams, with more people flying in and out through the ...

LATE UPDATE: Jenny LaCoste-Daputo, deputy director of communications, issued this statement at 5:04pm November 12, 2025: “The City of Austin believes that the budget work session meeting noticed for ...

Two Travis County property owners filed suit Wednesday against members of the Travis County Commissioners Court, saying the group exceeded their authority when they voted to set the county tax rate in ...

This story was updated at 12:45pm August 23, 2025, to add a link to the audio recording of the Appraisal Review Board’s formal hearing of the valuation protest filed by Colorado River Project LLC. The ...

In an old television ad, a man in a grocery store tells two women shoppers, “Please don’t squeeze the Charmin.” But the goal of a new documentary is precisely to squeeze Charmin. The tactic is to ...

Each member of the Board of Directors of Travis Central Appraisal District takes a sworn oath of office to faithfully execute the duties of their office and do their best to preserve, protect, and ...

The theatre was full at the Austin Film Society cinema last Monday evening as director Steve Mims presented his new documentary project The Magic Hole: An Austin Convention Center Expansion ...

Allan McMurtry first got involved in 1977, when the since-relocated Allendale Baptist Church wanted to expand. They began buying up houses around their property and tearing them down, while also ...

Austin’s next city council elections are 21 months away but two incumbents elected in 2022 have wasted no time in building campaign war chests to boost their reelection campaigns in 2026. This early ...