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Travis County will formally undo charges leveled against four young men for Austin's infamous yogurt shop murders after police found the man they believe responsible for the 1991 case earlier this year. Travis County District Attorney José Garza said he has filed the paperwork to exonerate the four men initially...

The Texas Star Mushroom, or Devil’s Cigar, is one of the rarest fungi in the world — found only in Texas, Oklahoma, and Japan. It “hisses” when it blooms and releases a puff of spores that look like smoke.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — One person died Thursday morning after a single-vehicle crash on State Highway 130. According to Austin-Travis County EMS, medics responded to a collision with a vehicle fire near the 10500 block of North SH 130 heading south around 6 a.m. At the scene, medics said an...

A motorist was filmed changing lanes right underneath a concrete beam loaded onto a moving semi truck in Texas recently, and even posted their own video of it. The video filmed by a fellow four wheeler shows the small sedan just casually moving from the far left lane into the center lane by simply driving […] The...

Austin’s civilian police watchdog has dropped its 2024 annual report, and it reads like a yearlong performance review that got a lot more serious. The Office of Police Oversight says 125 Austin Police Department officers were disciplined in 2024, and sustained complaints jumped to nearly four times the previous year....

AUSTIN, Texas — A homeless man is suing the City of Austin and Mayor Kirk Watson, alleging he was wrongfully removed from a nursing home while visiting his dying brother. The lawsuit, filed by Mark Thomas Cave, centers on an incident he says occurred in November of last year.

Houston outpaced Dallas, San Antonio and Austin, state crime prevention officials report.

WEST LAKE HILLS, Texas — West Lake Hills police say that a police department vehicle driving recklessly in Williamson County on Wednesday was out of service and not being driven by a police officer. At around 5 p.m. Wednesday, West Lake Hills police say they received multiple reports that...

Tesla is preparing to remove human safety monitors from its robotaxi fleet in Austin, a move the company says will shift the service toward fully driverless operation by the end of the year.

TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas — A deadly crash prompted road closures early Thursday morning in eastern Travis County, just west of Manor. According to the Austin Police Department (APD), all lanes of State Highway 130 heading southbound were temporarily closed, but reopened just before 10:30 a.m. The Austin-Travis County...