
Katy McAfee
Travis County Reporter-
Alert fatigue may have led some residents to ignore warnings. Spotty cell service also could have kept some alerts from coming in at all.
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Community members created a makeshift resource center at Round Mountain Baptist Church for anyone in need of food, water, clothes, medical help or financial assistance. So many volunteers showed up, they had to turn people away.
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A decade after the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage, Austin lovebirds returned to the spot where they became husbands and wives.
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Shelters and rescues in the area have a collective goal of rehoming 250 pets this weekend before they see a surge of lost pets on the Fourth of July.
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The governor called a special session to come up with regulations around THC products. Many shop owners say they've already been lobbying for them.
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Senate Bill 3, which was championed by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, could have cost tens of thousands of people their jobs. Abbott said he would call a special session to debate the legislation further.
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The guidelines go into effect Sept. 1 and require autonomous vehicles to be authorized by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Safety experts doubt Tesla's robotaxis, set to roll out Sunday, would meet the standards.
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The county doesn’t have authority to make federal agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, comply with the resolution. But local activists say the resolution is meant to remind everyone that immigrants have rights in the U.S.
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A group of small business owners, veterans and farmers lugged 25 cardboard boxes filled to the brim with petitions against Senate Bill 3 to the governor’s office on Monday.
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Jeremy George, director of jazz studies at the university, said the progress students have made in three years is "unheard of."