Officers responded to a noise complaint at Avelino Medel's home. Before he answered the door, he was shot multiple times.

The FBI had received a tip about an Instagram user making threats against Graham Elementary School. A 17-year-old has been charged with a third-degree felony.

The longtime head of the Department of Public Safety will step down at the end of the year.

The City Council set aside $400,000 in the budget to help pay for travel, including airfare and gas.

A new crisis policy outlines how the department will communicate with the public after an incident like a mass shooting or natural disaster. It's intended to address accountability and transparency concerns. But some groups say it doesn't go far enough.

In a major loss for the special prosecutors, the First Court of Appeals in Houston ruled that a lower court erred in ordering the lawyers to be paid $300 an hour for their work on the Paxton fraud case.

State legislators and gun rights advocates are calling on the State Fair of Texas to rescind its new policy banning firearms, implemented nearly a year after a shooting at the fair injured three.

Former Williamson County Sheriff Robert Chody and Jason Nassour, who serves as general counsel for the county, are accused of hiding — and eventually destroying — evidence connected to the in-custody death of Javier Ambler in 2019.

Davis comes to Austin by way of Cincinnati, where she started as a police officer in the '90s and worked her way up to assistant chief.

Robocalls from AT&T numbers overloaded the system for several hours on Sunday.