Katy McAfee

A so-called national shutdown has drawn support from businesses and students in Austin. Hundreds of AISD students walked out of class on Friday to join the protest movement. Gov. Greg Abbott said the state would investigate the school district's role.

Wait times were consistently above two hours at Austin Pets Alive as volunteers lined up to foster dogs and cats before ahead of a winter storm.

The Huston-Tillotson Jazz Orchestra finished in third place earlier this month at the National Collegiate Jazz Competition in New York. They were the smallest school selected to perform and the only all-undergraduate band.

Becerra said the incident happened outside a Costco store in Kyle and that the individual was “beat up” by ICE agents and was “bleeding from [their] face.”

Starting mid-February, Alamo Drafthouse will ditch its pen and paper ordering system for food and drinks.

The gathering in Pflugerville is among the first of four anti-ICE demonstrations planned across the Austin area over the next few days.

The free fridge and pantry at Dittmar Road and South First Street will close by Feb. 1 after persistent dumping, littering and overall uncleanliness, volunteers said.

From Trudy's last remaining location to Jim-Jim's Water-Ice, here are 10 places that called it quits this year. Some cited rising costs and tariffs as reasons for their closure, while others noted competition from national retailers and businesses with more capital flooding the market made it hard to continue operating.

Public entities are required to “take every reasonable step” to ensure people are using the bathroom designated for the sex they were assigned at birth. But what counts as “reasonable” across publicly owned buildings in Austin is still largely unclear.

Travis County officials declined to specify which parts of the deal the automaker is failing to provide documentation for. In a statement, Commissioner Margaret Gomez said she will “push on staff” to determine if Tesla is in compliance.