Several pieces of Austin street art are gone after state transportation leaders ordered them removed.
City of Austin transportation crews paved over the “BLACK ARTISTS MATTER” mural on East 11th Street and the giant “TEXAS” letters on Guadalupe Street in West Campus on Thursday, the city confirmed.
Elon Musk has received federal regulatory approval to acquire a data center communication company created by former SpaceX engineers.
The Federal Trade Commission gave Musk the green light for his proposed acquisition of Mesh Optical Technologies Corp., which develops optical transceivers it says allow faster and more efficient transfer of data.
Alamo Drafthouse is going beyond screening movies and into theatrical distribution with a new program designed to bring acclaimed independent films from the festival circuit to audiences across the country.
The Austin-born cinema chain announced Wednesday the launch of Alamo Exclusives, a distribution initiative that will give select films without U.S. theatrical distribution a limited run at Alamo Drafthouse locations nationwide.
A parasitic stomach illness called cryptosporidiosis is spreading throughout the country, with Texas being one of the hot spots. This illness is known for its "explosive" diarrhea.
In the past 10 years, Texas has had more than 800 cases on average per year.
For years, Austinites have marked each full moon with the unofficial, long-cherished tradition of gathering at Barton Springs to “howl” together into the night. Last month’s strawberry moon was no exception.
Ironically, the moon itself remained hidden for much of the evening, obscured behind the eastern tree line. That did little to dampen the festivities.
The pastor of an Austin Catholic church was stabbed several times Saturday night at a downtown steakhouse after a restaurant server who recognized him from church attacked him as he was leaving, according to police.
The pastor was dining with parishioners when the alleged attacker stabbed him four to six times in the back and shoulder as the group was leaving, according to an arrest affidavit.
Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday called the Supreme Court decision upholding birthright citizenship a “missed opportunity” to end the longstanding constitutional right, which he cast as a "powerful magnet for illegal immigration."
The City of Austin and the Austin Symphony Orchestra will once again bring one of the city's biggest Independence Day traditions to Auditorium Shores on Saturday for the July 4 Concert & Fireworks Celebration.
Officials encourage attendees to consider alternative transportation. CapMetro will offer free rides after 5 p.m., with bus service operating on a Sunday schedule and MetroRail running on a Saturday schedule.
Zipline, the world’s largest autonomous drone delivery company, is expanding service into Austin later this year, bringing food, groceries and even prescriptions straight to customers’ yards.
Zipline relies on fully autonomous drones to take orders directly to customers who order from partner stores such as Chipotle, Walmart, Crumbl Cookies, local restaurants and, eventually, pharmacies.
Texas Democrats assembled in Corpus Christi for their three-day convention that ended Saturday, seeking to redefine the meaning of the politics of inclusion.
They embraced a platform that aggressively reached out to rural Texans, blue-color laborers, small business owners and military veterans, while acknowledging more must be done to protect the nation's southern border and the property of landowners who live and work near the Rio Grande. Those issues can no longer be ceded to the Republicans, several delegates, candidate and officeholders said.
Roughly 170 property owners near Bee Caves Armory say Austin wrongly pulled their land back under the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction after previously confirming it had been released.
The plaintiffs argue the city had no legal authority to reverse releases it had already approved, in some cases months or years earlier, and did so without notice, a hearing or an opportunity to appeal.
Now they're asking a federal judge to stop the city from enforcing that decision.
Austin’s bar scene is in its budget era. Affordable, actually good cocktails are everywhere if you know where to look.
From $3 mimosas at Kerbey Lane to 99-cent martinis at Citizen, these 10 Austin drinks keep it under $5.
In May, 64-year-old Kirk Foyle was a customer at Green Mesquite BBQ when he was fatally struck and crushed by an aging pecan tree that overhung the Barton Springs Road restaurant's patio after storms swept through the region.
Three of Foyle's children are now suing for wrongful death and negligence, saying the property owners failed to inspect or maintain the tree.
The State Board of Education on Friday gave the final approval to a literary list that will require students to read a dozen passages of the Bible, enshrining Christianity as part of classroom instruction for all 5.5 million students in Texas public schools.
The Republican-led board passed the reading in a 9-5 vote.
Ricardo Aguilera was visiting Grande's downtown pop-up store with a friend when word began spreading that the singer had been spotted at De Nada Cantina.
"The entire car ride was silent," Aguilera told the Statesman in a text message. "I was praying, manifesting and trying to stay calm."
“The adoption and deployment of AI technologies across our operations have resulted, and may continue to result, in reductions to our workforce,” the company said in a filing.
A crowd of roughly 100 people streamed into Austin's Pease Park Wednesday evening, placing colorful flowers and handwritten notes as they gathered at the spot where their giant wooden troll friend, Malin, used to sit before she burned down in a May fire that remains under investigation.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin testified Thursday that the Trump administration is now planning "only" two miles of barriers in Big Bend National Park, after abandoning a controversial plan to build a border wall through the massive West Texas park.
Austin City Council met away from public view to approve one of the most expensive and misguided projects in Austin’s history, guest columnist Paul Robbins writes.
Under the cloak of “competitive matters,” they approved a contract for a natural gas peaking plant, which would be turned on to provide power in periods of peak demand.
Even after adjusting for inflation, estimates suggest Austin’s new gas-powered plant will cost about $610 million more than a comparable plant would have cost in 2023. With debt financing and insurance, this is the equivalent of a “data center tax.”
Texas Democrats will open their convention Thursday in Corpus Christi, buoyed by what they foresee as a hostile midterm election cycle for Republicans and by the opportunity to present themselves as a generational alternative to the GOP's decades-long dominance that has lost touch with the needs of a youthful state.
The Democrats' ticket includes 37-year-old James Talarico, who would be the youngest member of the U.S. Senate.
"It's time for these Republicans to get out of the way and make way for our younger folks," said longtime activist Donna Beth McCormick, the state Democratic Party's sergeant at arms who is approaching 90 years old.