Austin

Dr. Collette Pierce Burnette is stepping down after seven years on the job. She says she doesn't think Austin fully appreciates and understands H-T, but she thinks more people do now than when she started.

Performances are not just confined to dark bars anymore, and anyone can be a drag queen.

José Garza and other prosecutors around the country issued a statement saying enforcing abortion bans would erode trust in the legal system, take resources away from enforcing serious crimes, and retraumatize the victims of sexual violence.

In March, an attorney sued Austin City Council members on behalf of a dozen residents. He argued roughly 24,000 people who had been moved into new council districts as part of the city’s redistricting efforts had been denied their right to elect a local representative.

Thousands of protesters descended on downtown Austin on Friday, hours after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark decision establishing a constitutional right to an abortion in the United States.

Providers in Texas said they would stop offering abortions immediately while they figure out if anti-abortion laws in effect before Roe now apply.

Two pilot projects are being permanently adopted.

The 2022-2023 budget includes a massive payment to the state’s recapture system and pay increases for teachers as well as other school staff. It also eliminates nearly 600 positions, primarily in the district’s central office.

We Are Blood is opening a location in Cedar Park, its fourth permanent blood donation center. The nonprofit hopes the addition will help serve the area's growing needs through 2024.

The city wants to demolish the terminal where ultra-low-cost airlines Allegiant and Frontier operate to make room for a new concourse.