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Austin reabre las solicitudes para quienes necesitan ayuda para pagar el alquiler

Las solicitudes para el programa de ayuda al alquiler de la ciudad llevan cerradas desde febrero. Los miembros del consejo de la ciudad votaron este verano a favor de reanudar el programa con unos 3.6 millones de dólares de financiación.

Children play with blocks at the Nehemiah Christian School

1,000 affordable child care slots are opening in Travis County before the end of the year

The new child care slots will make a dent in Workforce Solutions' current waitlist, which has about 6,000 kids and takes an average two years to get through.

Lamar Cornett has worked in restaurants for more than 20 years. During the pandemic, he began thinking about leaving that career behind.

Low Pay, No Benefits, Rude Customers: Restaurant Workers Quit At Record Rate

Average wages for nonmanagers at restaurants and bars hit $15 an hour in May, but many say no amount of pay would get them to return. They are leaving at the highest rate in decades.

As Nature Claims Shipwrecks, Historians Can Only Watch

From Texas Standard:What remains of the ship La Belle sits in a place of honor in the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin. It sits in a dark…

After Months Of Obstacles And Discord, Travis County Is Closer To Creating A Public Defender Office

Update:Travis County is one step closer to creating a public defender office that would handle felony and misdemeanor cases of low-income defendants who…

The home of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland is surrounded by police tape in Forney, Texas, on Monday. Authorities launched a massive investigation into the weekend killings of McLelland and his wife.

Expert: Recent Attacks On Justice Community 'Really Unprecedented'

Two county prosecutors fatally shot in Texas. Colorado's top prison official gunned down. And a dozen more members of the U.S. justice community — ranging from police to judges — victims of targeted killings since the beginning of the decade. An investigator who studies such crimes says he's worried about a possible trend.

FBI Director James Comey takes a break after three hours of testifying on Capitol Hill on Monday.

4 Unanswered Questions About The FBI's Russia Investigation

Republicans and Democrats staged what seemed like separate, parallel hearings on Monday into Russia's mischief in the 2016 presidential campaign — and left many questions unanswered.

Willy T. Ribbs is the first and one of only two black drivers in the history of Indy car racing. He lives in Driftwood and is now a professional skeet-shooter.

As IndyCar Rolls Into Austin, The First Black Driver Reflects On Roadblocks Then And Now

Outside of Austin, past the Hays County line in Driftwood, lives one of U.S. racing’s biggest pioneers. And he moved here for one of the more Texas-y of…

FBI Director Christopher Wray. The bureau warns it has "grave concerns" about the "accuracy" of the Republican surveillance memo at the center of a partisan whirlwind in Washington.

FBI Warns Of 'Grave Concerns' About 'Accuracy' Of GOP Snooping Memo

The FBI went on record faulting the much discussed memo as the White House said it was working to make it public. It could appear as soon as this week.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks remotely Tuesday during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on the coronavirus.

Fauci Warns States Not To 'Jump Over' Guidelines To Reopening

The nation's top infectious disease expert spoke remotely during a unique Senate health committee hearing on the coronavirus pandemic.

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