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Highland Mall: From Orphanage Grounds to Suburban Promise. Before Highland Mall opened in Austin, the property was the site of the St. John Industrial Institute and Home for Negro Orphans, founded in the early 1900s and closed and destroyed by fire in the 1950s. In the late 1960s, Austin Malls...

Former Garfield County judge Brian Lovell pleaded guilty to a 2023 drive-by shooting in Bison, receiving a 20-year suspended sentence.

Previous outlooks favored La Niña only into the beginning of winter.

The Austin Police Department has released body cam video and audio from the officer-involved shooting on September 10.

On Tuesday, Kyle's $3.14 Uber rideshare program celebrated its 5-year anniversary, which also kicked off the city's review of the program.

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The State Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies teaching plan that will dedicate more time across school grades to Texas and U.S. history while placing less attention on world...

Community Unity: The city of Austin is launching its first-ever brand in an attempt to “enhance unity [and] cohesion” across city departments; the unified city logo will replace over 300 current logos of various city services. A city of Austin representative told KVUE that the brand, a collaboration of Austin-based...

A Comal County jury convicted Jeremy Dwayne Parker, 44, of Round Rock, who official say threatened to 'shoot it out" with police if caught again.

National Hispanic/Latine Heritage Month runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, honoring the historias, culturas y contributions of our comunidad. It’s a time when many Latin American países including México, Guatemala, Brazil and more mark their independence with música, food, and traditions, making it the perfect time to...

Jason Mitton wanted one of the new COVID-19 vaccines before leaving on a business trip. But the pharmacists at a drug store near his home in Austin, Texas, refused. “He’s like: ‘Do you have a doctor’s note?’ I said: ‘No, I don’t.’ He said: ‘Well, the FDA standards say that you don’t qualify. And our policy is that we...