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But airport officials say they'll eventually need to remove three gates to build an underground tunnel connecting the Barbara Jordan Terminal to a new concourse — part of an even longer-term expansion that would increase the airport's capacity by as many as 40 gates.

Voters approved a historic $2.4 billion bond package last November. It allows the district to borrow money to cover the costs of modernizing campuses, improving school security and buying new technology for students and staff.

The measure will hold contractors working on district property to a higher standard. The resolution requires any entity awarded a bid for a bond project to provide safety training, living wages and independent on-site monitoring.

The AISD Board of Trustees will decide on a resolution Thursday that seeks to ensure construction workers make a living wage and have safety training. The measure comes ahead of the 2022 school bond election which, if passed, will lead to many new construction projects in the district.

If you think of the number of new home groundbreakings and the number of new homes finished and sold as trains traveling on two parallel tracks, historically they've kept pace. That's no longer the case.

The U.S. has a home shortage, but builders may be slowing instead of increasing construction because of worries that the homes won't be sold.

Home prices rose nearly 20% last year, in large part because the U.S. is several million homes short of demand. Builders say the pandemic is partly to blame, but the problem goes deeper than that.

Tras el colapso de un edificio en Florida que dejó a docenas de muertos y desaparecidos, muchos se han puesto a pensar sobre la seguridad de sus propios edificios. Aquí te decimos cómo reportar condiciones inseguras.

After a condo collapse in Florida left dozens dead and more still missing, people across the country are suddenly thinking a lot more about building safety. Here's how people can report unsafe conditions to the Austin Code Department.

Limited protections and structural inequalities led to COVID hotspots among low-wage Latino workers in Austin, researchers found.