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According to a memo obtained by KXAN, Austin Fire Chief Joel Baker is retiring at the end of the month, but will be "unavailable and out of the office beginning August 11." Tom Vocke will serve as acting fire chief beginning Tuesday.

AUSTIN, Texas - Officials in Travis County and Hays County have issued burn bans. The burn bans are for all unincorporated areas in both counties and go into effect beginning August 11. The bans will remain in effect until September 29 unless otherwise authorized by the Commissioners Court in Hays...

AUSTIN, Texas - Several counties in the area have issued burn bans. This comes as the risk of wildfires increases. "One spark can become somebody else's emergency extremely fast right now," Texas A&M Forest Service PIO Reilly Ruggiero said. That warning played out along Highway 130 near Lockhart. A man...

The ban has been in effect for more than 50 years.

Republic Powersports has acquired Kent Powersports, taking ownership of the three-store dealership group serving the Austin, San Antonio and New Braunfels markets in Texas. The transaction was announced Aug. 5 and marks the launch of Republic Powersports, a new dealership group led by industry veterans Shane Talbert, A

AUSTIN, Texas — A 29-year-old man was arrested early Sunday morning after leading police on a pursuit in a stolen vehicle, according to the Austin Police Department. Officers responded shortly after 12:30 a.m. Aug. 9 to a report of a stolen vehicle being tracked near East Riverside Drive and Wickersham Lane, police sai

PFLUGERVILLE, Texas — Firefighters battled a house fire Monday afternoon that spread from one home to several neighboring properties in a Pflugerville neighborhood, leaving three homes damaged, according to the fire department. Crews were called to the scene off Betterman Drive shortly before 3 p.m. Monday. Upon arriva

AUSTIN, Texas — A man died after a single-motorcycle crash in Southeast Austin Sunday night, according to the police department. Officers responded at about 8:50 p.m. to the 4700 block of East William Cannon Drive, police said. Austin-Travis County EMS medics attempted lifesaving measures, but the motorcyclist was pron

AUSTIN, Texas — Austin police have identified a woman who was struck and killed by a vehicle Sunday night in North Austin. According to the Austin Police Department, officers responded around 11:18 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 9, to a crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian in the 8500 block of North Lamar Boulevard.

Deep into the night, heat from the 100-degree day radiates off the sidewalk outside of Elysium, Austin’s oldest goth bar. It’ll celebrate 25 years this year. By 10 p.m. on the Sunday I went, dancers covered the floor. Not all were in the traditional goth get-up planted in...