1+ hour, 32+ min ago  (340+ words) The Austin Transit Partnership board on Wednesday awarded a $60 million design-build contract for the first phase of'Austin's long-promised light rail system. ATP, the local government entity responsible for building the voter-backed train, selected Austin Rail Constructors " a joint venture between…...

3+ hour, 9+ min ago  (493+ words) The Lower Colorado River Authority will consider building a new lake in Colorado County, about 110 miles southeast of Austin, agency officials announced Wednesday. LCRA General Manager Phil Wilson said during a Wednesday meeting'the authority is "quickly moving forward" with a…...

3+ hour, 59+ min ago  (277+ words) The demolition of the Frank Erwin Center continues Monday May 20, 2024, after it was mostly flattened on Sunday. The demolition of the Erwin Center and the adjacent Denton'Cooley Pavilion basketball training facility was intended to make way for a UT academic…...

5+ hour, 49+ min ago  (341+ words) The Austin police officer who punched a man in the face last October during an encounter on East Sixth Street that went viral on social media has been fired following an internal investigation into the incident. Austin Police Department spokesperson…...

8+ hour, 4+ min ago  (379+ words) Senate candidate Jasmine'Crockett said the late-night scramble over Stephen Colbert's pulled interview with rival Democrat James Talarico may have done the opposite of what CBS' lawyers intended " handing her opponent extra attention just days into early voting. Get Digital Access…...

10+ hour, 6+ min ago  (351+ words) University of Texas students walk through campus in front of the UT Tower on the first day of the spring semester in 2023. What happens when a university'excludes faculty, staff and students'from decision-making about the curriculum? At the University of Texas,…...

13+ hour, 45+ min ago  (243+ words) The first day of early voting in Texas brought U.S. Senate candidates to Austin, where campaign events unfolded across the city as voters began casting ballots. U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, seeking reelection in the Republican primary, appeared at a rally at Serrano's…...

14+ hour, 1+ min ago  (756+ words) The flood damage along the Guadalupe River in downtown Kerrville, Texas, July 5, 2025. KERRVILLE " In the chaotic days and weeks after deadly July floods tore through the Texas Hill Country, Kerr County's animal shelter was so overwhelmed with displaced pets that…...

14+ hour, 6+ min ago  (921+ words) A landmark court hearing is set for Thursday in Austin as a state district judge is expected to exonerate the four men falsely accused of killing four teenage girls at a yogurt shop in 1991. The hearing, which will be livestreamed,…...

14+ hour, 6+ min ago  (693+ words) Forrest Welborn, one of four men wrongfully accused in the 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders, speaks at Manchaca Springs Saloon, which he owns. "A lot of people still believed I was one of the people who committed this crime, just that…...