Andrew Weber
ReporterAndrew Weber is KUT's government accountability reporter, focusing on criminal justice, policing, courts and homelessness in Austin and Travis County. You can email him at aweber@kut.org.
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The lawyer for a protester arrested at a pro-Israel event argues UT officials actively hid communications about the case by using apps that can delete messages. -
APD continues to have trouble filling empty jobs and bringing in new officers. That's due in part to a lack of recruitment plans, city auditors found. -
The agency put the brakes on a plan to build a larger parking structure at the campus, which opened in 2022. It cited an abundance of remote workers. -
State workers came back to cramped offices and packed parking lots this week. They said the new policy is unworkable. -
Students plan to protest the national conference. UT had no comment on the views of some of the conference speakers. -
Austin City Council can rest easy: Texas isn't going to take over the capital city. -
A new report finds burying lines would be expensive and infeasible given Austin's rocky topsoil. The city commissioned the study after frozen tree limbs on power lines caused blackouts in 2023. -
The money would have gone to help finish the Waterloo Greenway and to projects that help domestic violence survivors and people transitioning out of homelessness. -
The federal agency said staffing shortages were to blame for the temporary ground stop. -
A Texas GOP lawmaker wants a state takeover of Austin but can't offer specifics on how it would workThe bill from Houston-area Republican state Rep. Briscoe Cain isn't the first attempt to undermine local control in Austin.
