Close to midnight on June 18, after almost seven hours of public hearing and debate, Austin ISD trustees voted to adopt the proposed $887 million budget for the 2026-2027 school year with one ...

Most Austinites are unaware that our city is home to a far-right billionaire working diligently, and very effectively, to criminalize homelessness. That person is Joe Lonsdale, and VOCAL-TX, the ...

Austin public safety agencies recovered an Austin Water employee last Wednesday, June 17, from a manhole after the city worker fell in. The employee was performing routine maintenance on a wastewater ...

It’s Usagi’s birthday, which means local Austin magical girls Louisianna Purchase and Mars Morningstar have invited Dragula: Titans season 2’s Blackberri for a big ol’ party. Expect drag, a costume ...

Mission Espada, the first Spanish mission in Texas, was founded in 1690 in East Texas as Mission Tejas. Built among the Caddo Nation, the mission only lasted about three years before being revived ...

Amanda Eyre Ward is whisking readers away to sparkling Mediterranean waters and ivory cliffs this summer. Once there, though, her characters’ lives aren’t all monument tours and seaside relaxation.

They’ll share lots of firsts, lots of gossip, and a book in Laekan Zea Kemp’s The Chismosas Only Book Club. “I know how awkward yet precious that transitional period is in their lives,” Kemp says. As ...

I remain devoted to the summer reading program, though my logging abilities are lacking these days. The tradition of blocking off a season for for-fun reading and public page-flipping might be part of ...

Many who offered comments at the Environmental Commission’s June 17 meeting spoke in bitingly personal terms about the new ...

Roughly a century later, accelerating development and a growing population led to a new form of displacement. Gentrification priced, and continues to price, many property owners out of East Austin ...

In 1958, Gordon Lightfoot left his small Ontario town for Los Angeles with a pit stop in Toronto. Years later, Neil Young ...

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