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A lawsuit filed in the US District Court Wednesday accuses several top leaders at Texas' Office of the Attorney General, or OAG, of conspiring to defame the plaintiffs via a lawsuit based on claims they say are false.

AUSTIN, Texas — Austin's newest affordable housing community seeks to empower artists with disabilities. Live Make Apartments first opened for occupancy in April and celebrated with a ribbon cutting and open house Thursday. While the affordable and accessible housing targets an underserved niche, people of all...

Salt Lick BBQ in Driftwood, Texas, has long been an Austin favorite, but now things are really heating up: The restaurant has added a new all-you-can-eat, family style dinner as a permanent menu fixture. This latest offering includes as much beef brisket, sausage, pork ribs, potato salad, cole slaw, and...

Heat can be particularly dangerous for people with dementia.

AUSTIN, Texas - Two people are charged with murder after a man was killed in the crossfire of an East Austin shooting in December. Austin police say Johnny Ybarra, 34, and Manuel Medina, 37, were involved in an early morning shootout on Thrasher Lane on Dec. 13. Erik Tijerina, 45,...

Austin, Texas has had so much skyline construction over the past couple of decades, you are almost surprised there are not a network of netting spanning from building to building. When you are actually downtown in the city, you kind of lose track of how much construction is going on hundreds of feet overhead and how...

AUSTIN, Texas — A beloved piece of Austin art is back where it belongs. “Nightwing,” the iconic spinning bat sculpture outside the YETI flagship store on Congress Avenue, has officially returned after undergoing months of restoration. ALSO | Austin bat sculpture spins again, celebrating the city's unique charm...

MUSTANG RIDGE, Texas — A driver was arrested for driving while intoxicated after police observed the vehicle traveling the wrong way on Highway 183, according to the Mustang Ridge Police Department. An officer stopped the vehicle June 22 after observing it driving southbound in the northbound lanes of the...

A 47-year-old man accepted a seven-year prison sentence in exchange for pleading guilty Thursday in a case where a woman's body was found burned in northwest Austin in September 2023, according to court records.

BUDA, Texas - Residents in Hays County are on alert after a flyer was shared online, warning of a recent bear sighting in a Buda neighborhood. "I'm going on 19 years in the sheriff's office. Also, at the college up here before that, I’ve never heard of a bear sighting in Hays County," says Hays County Sheriff's...