Mayor Kirk Watson ordered Austin police to investigate, saying he didn’t trust the feds. Mayor John Whitmire initially said Houston lacked jurisdiction.
On a hot August afternoon, Marcus Martin walked out of the Travis County Correctional Complex in Southeast Austin after about six months behind bars, a broad smile stretched across his face. He’s been incarcerated before, but he believes this time is different. Outside the facility, several people awaited his release in their vehicles, blasting the […]
Coach Hank Carter said he did not have the words to describe his emotions after the death of one of his players, Odin Hensley, who suffered a medical emergency at practice.
A Lake Travis High School football player died after suffering a medical emergency at practice earlier this week.
The system has been riddled with problems since it was updated last year. Some lawmakers and election officials want it fixed by November.
A Travis County judge set the tentative date for a Bexar County man charged in connection with the capital murder of multiple people three years ago in the Austin area.
Some items on Abbott's agenda would require amending the Texas Constitution, meaning they would need supermajority support in the Legislature.
Gary Grief, former executive director of the now-dissolved Texas Lottery Commission, is alleged to have used his position to defraud the state during a 2023 Lotto Texas drawing.
The indictment accused Gary Grief of misusing his position to defraud the state in a highly scrutinized $95 million 2023 Lotto Texas drawing.
Nineteen camps had sued over a regulation that required fiber optic connectivity. An agreement with the state allows sites to operate with other broadband internet service.
Six days after a deadly apartment fire, the Austin Police Department identified the names and ages of children who were found in the apartment unit.
The Austin Fire Department said it is investigating the cause of a fire that killed three children on Wednesday morning.
The Austin Police Department released new body camera, surveillance video and 911 phone calls Thursday from Sunday’s deadly mass shooting on Sixth Street that left four people dead, including the suspected gunman.
Cabins, grounds and other buildings hit by the July 4 flood on the Guadalupe River cannot be renovated or removed, according to the order.
Travis County District Attorney José Garza faced intense criticism over a policy that would have sent the officers before a grand jury, before he said his office would not seek charges against “heroes.”
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has issued an Amber Alert for a missing 12-year-old in Travis County and identified a suspect in connection with her disappearance.
The death of Brianna Aguilera, a 19-year-old Texas A&M University student from Laredo, has been ruled a suicide, the Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Friday.
A Travis County judge on Wednesday ruled against a request to stop the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute, but because the lawsuit is still in play, the fund can’t go into effect.
The long-standing battle against a controversial northwest Bexar County housing development intensified Monday after opponents of the project sued the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).
Taylor's conviction was the first time a Travis County police officer had been found liable in an on-duty fatal shooting.
A Laredo mother is searching for answers after her daughter died in Austin hours after last week’s Texas Longhorns-Texas A&M Aggies football game.
A mother is searching for answers after her daughter died in Austin hours after attending the Texas Longhorns and Texas A&M Aggies football game.
ICE agents are arresting more immigrants on the streets and at routine check-ins than under President Biden. But most of them don’t have criminal convictions despite pledges to pursue “the worst of the worst.”
Texas Medical Association has nudged physicians to consider COVID vaccine recommendations from other medical groups.
Teresa Clark, the sister of Suzanne Clark Simpson, is accused of harassing four members of Brad Simpson’s family, according to affidavits obtained by KSAT on Friday evening.
Thanks to a multi-county and multi-agency effort, the Karnes County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of a man accused of shooting and killing a woman in Runge nearly two weeks ago.
Almost one-third of Americans live in areas like Travis County’s Sandy Creek, where disaster aid can be spotty.
Casar moved quickly to coalesce Austin Democrats, launching his campaign for the 37th Congressional District Monday with endorsements from 42 current and former Texas elected officials.
The contest would unearth brewing Democratic tensions over age and experience, forcing Austin politicos to choose between two well-liked progressives.
The number of people missing in the Kerrville area due to the Fourth of July floods has been reduced to 97, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said during a news conference on Monday.
The number of people missing in the Kerrville area due to the Fourth of July floods has been reduced to 97, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said during a news conference on Monday.
Archived minutes from a 2016 Kerr County Commissioners Court meeting indicate the conversation about implementing a flood warning system dates back years.
Over half of the district attorneys affected by the rule filed lawsuits challenging it, saying it violates state and federal law.
One proposal would allow the attorney general to sue cities and freeze sales tax revenues for up to 90 days.
The bill would allow a vaccine exemption form to be downloadable. Currently, a form must be requested from the state and mailed to the recipient.
Two suspects were arrested and charged with abusing a human corpse, among other charges, according to the Austin Police Department.
A man charged in connection with a 17-vehicle crash on Interstate 35 that left five people dead and 11 others injured had his bond amounts significantly reduced on Tuesday, according to Travis County court records.
Austin Public Health confirmed an infant in Travis County has tested positive for measles, the first reported case in the county since 2019, according to a news release.
A federal court’s decision is the latest development in a bitter pre-election brawl between Republican state officials and Democratic county leaders.
The county told a state district court judge that the applications were already mailed out and any ruling would be moot.
A 31-year-old man accused of pulling another man more than twice his age down a North Star Mall escalator has been arrested.
In the state’s larger counties, voters can now elect people to the agencies that appraise property values.
University officials banned all students arrested from campus, except for “academic reasons.”
Next month, mentally ill individuals accused of committing minor crimes will be “diverted” to a new 25-bed facility instead of jail cells in Travis County.
Some environmental experts are skeptical that Texas can meet the new rules on particulate matter, which can cause serious respiratory problems.
The attorney general accused the judge of “recklessly disregarding legal precedent” after he attempted to end the long-running lawsuit from former staffers.
Suspecting the Washington-based hospital of providing gender-affirming care to Texas children, which is now banned in Texas, AG Ken Paxton issued investigative subpoenas demanding medical information.
A San Antonio man accused of killing six people, including his parents, in a series of attacks in Bexar County and Austin tried to escape custody at the Travis County Jail, according to authorities.
The Travis County district attorney still plans to pursue criminal charges in four cases. The officers whose cases are being dismissed will be allowed to return to duty.
The neighboring regions are projected to collectively grow from 5.2 million to 8.3 million people by 2050. But the state still lacks an overarching plan to address critical housing and transportation issues, experts said.
The ruling comes after dozens of school districts sued the Texas Education Agency, claiming the revised accountability system would hurt their ratings.
A woman awaiting trial in Austin for allegedly killing a professional cyclist in 2022 briefly escaped custody on Wednesday, according to media reports.
Online court records show that Mitchell Wasek, 28, was arrested on Tuesday in Travis County and charged with 28 state jail felony charges of invasive visual recording.
A search is underway for a missing teen who didn’t resurface after a boat ran aground on Lake Austin, according to Austin-Travis County EMS officials.
More than 8 in 10 people charged by state troopers since they began helping Austin police have been people of color. In Southeast Austin, a neighborhood president calls it “outright racial profiling.”
The number of acres burned this year is dramatically lower compared to 2022. But a rash of new fires have put state and local officials on edge.
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Paxton’s top aide told senators that an agency-hired lawyer worked with the Travis County district attorney’s office to investigate a complaint by Nate Paul. County prosecutors dispute that.
The women, believed to be the first to testify about an abortion ban’s impact on their pregnancy since 1973, are seeking to clarify when a medical emergency justifies an abortion.
Gov. Greg Abbott has said he wants to pardon Perry, who was convicted by a Travis County jury last week.
Hamilton Pool in Travis County, which is known for its 50-foot waterfall which cascades into a natural swimming hole, is open for reservations through May. Reservations for dates in June 2023 and beyond are not available yet.
Chris Beard was arrested in December for allegedly strangling his fiancée. The university fired him last month.
A small plane reportedly lost power before it crashed onto a golf course in Lakeway on Sunday morning, according to Austin-Travis County EMS officials.
A days-long power outage and a misleading social media post led to hundreds of people fighting over food at an H-E-B on the Southeast Side of Austin, according to Travis County Constable George Morales III.
Close to 325,000 electricity customers statewide lacked power Thursday evening. Austin’s main power provider said it can no longer promise full restoration by 6 p.m. Friday.
Areli Escobar was sentenced to death in 2011 for an Austin murder, but even prosecutors now agree his conviction relied heavily on faulty DNA testing by the discredited Travis County crime lab.
Watson, a former state senator who was Austin’s mayor from 1997 to 2001, pitched himself as a back-to-basics candidate who could ease the city’s growing affordability crisis.
For some local relief programs, a lack of staffing, political support and effective community outreach got in the way of spending federal funds to prevent evictions, a new report found. More than $30 million went unspent and had to be returned.
The Court of Criminal Appeals scuttled nearly 450 cases, saying migrants arrested for trespassing in Kinney County can’t ask Austin judges to hear their appeals.
Although there are laws on the books preventing certain people from possessing guns, there are few places in the state where the criminal justice system has programs to hand over firearms to law enforcement — leaving survivors at a heightened risk for gun violence.
A Hays County commissioner who was charged with driving while intoxicated after crashing into a vehicle in Austin last year has been sentenced to nine months of community supervision in the case, Travis County court records show.
A former Texas sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for killing his ex-wife, teenage stepdaughter and the stepdaughter's boyfriend.
While there are currently 780 confirmed monkeypox cases statewide, Texas cities are bracing for an increase in infections.
A woman convicted in 2016 of murdering her husband during a road rage incident provided false payroll information over a seven-year period in order to avoid more than $9 million in payments, Texas Department of Insurance officials confirmed Thursday.
Daniel Alexander was enslaved when he founded a farm before the Civil War. 175 years later, his family is fighting to keep it intact as Texas plans to expand U.S. Highway 183.
A San Antonio man who pleaded guilty to setting fire to a political party office in Austin will spend six years in prison for the crime.
A suspect was charged in the murder of a man whose body was found by deputies last month, according to the Hay’s County Sheriff’s Office.
Casar won the Democratic primary for Texas’ 35th Congressional District in a landslide victory last month and is expected to win the general election in November.
Months after the problems became apparent, migrants are still being kept in prison in violation of state laws under Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security crackdown.
Abbott’s move is the latest in a long clash between Texas Republicans and Austin-area officials over policing — and comes as the push for reform in the Texas capital enters a more complex and uncertain chapter.
Indictments released Tuesday accuse 19 officers of using deadly weapons to injure 11 demonstrators during protests against racial injustice and police violence two years ago.
Defense attorneys for eight of 19 indicted APD officers say they were following orders when they used force against 2020 protesters. So far, there are 14 lawsuits against the city for injuries suffered during those confrontations.
