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More than 1,700 students signed a petition to walk out of schools Thursday, demanding district leadership provide a virtual learning option and more precautions against COVID-19.

City properties will serve as warming centers for unsheltered Austinites all day Thursday amid freezing temperatures.

If Leander left Capital Metro, it would save $10 million in annual sales tax revenues and eliminate commuter rail and other transit services.

In an email to parents, Superintendent Douglas Killian said the district has too many staff members out because of COVID-19.

Hays County is one of 14 entities across the country that's having funds taken back by the federal government for failing to meet spending deadlines.

All evacuees of the Rolling Pines Fire were able to return home by 6 p.m. Wednesday, County Judge Paul Pape said.

Jereka Thomas-Hockaday, the co-founder a medical training school geared toward low-income students, was featured on the latest season of the Netflix show. She and her staff started a COVID-19 clinic amid the pandemic, but it lost funding a few months after the episode was filmed.

Multiple neighborhood streets have been evacuated in Bastrop County as emergency officials try to stop the Rolling Pines Fire from spreading.

The Austin police department already has a policy of not ticketing or arresting people for low-level marijuana offenses, but the department still uses no-knock warrants.

As a working musician, Shelton has never had a steady income. He might have a good month and make $4,000, or he might have a slow one and barely earn enough money to pay rent.