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Kealing Middle School temporarily replaced a failed chiller after classrooms began struggling to cool, but a problem with a chilled-water pump has kept the system from operating at full capacity. Austin ISD says it is installing a new pump and monitoring indoor temperatures closely.
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Austin officials are considering a $1.3 million piping system to control leachate, contaminated water produced when rain and…
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A city review recommends maintaining funding for 106 Austin social-service agreements and modifying 27, with no reductions…
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Rep. Greg Casar says Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez needs surgery after an ICE agent shot him Sept. 20. The Venezuelan immigrant…
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Tesla’s Robotaxi service was still accepting riders in Texas after its state Transportation Network Company license lapsed in…
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Texas officials confirmed that skeletal remains found near Luling belong to Jason Landry, the Texas State University student who…
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Search-warrant affidavits show investigators are examining whether Camp Mystic’s owners could face criminal charges after 27…
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Austin police are investigating the death of a man found with severe bodily trauma outside a home on Virtus Bend early…
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Austin police are investigating a fatal shooting reported early Wednesday at a home near the 1000 block of Springdale Road.…
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Students in Hays CISD and Pflugerville left class Tuesday to protest immigration enforcement after an ICE agent shot a…
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The Manor Police Department has moved into the former Manor Excel Academy at 600 E. Parsons St. Administrative services are…
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Firefly Aerospace has completed a new clean room at its Cedar Park campus, expanding the company’s ability to build, test and…
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Waymo has begun allowing some Austin riders to travel on freeways in its autonomous vehicles, marking an expansion of the…
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A herd of goats will return to the Ann and Roy Butler Hike-and-Bike Trail this weekend to eat poison ivy and other unwanted…
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A Venezuelan asylum seeker was shot in North Austin while making a DoorDash delivery, then transferred hours later to an ICE…
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HAAM Day returns Sept. 22 with its biggest lineup in more than two decades, spreading live music across Austin while supporting…
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Federal officials plan to resume cattle imports through Santa Teresa on Sept. 24 while expanding inspections, trapping and…
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San Marcos police are investigating a homicide after finding evidence of foul play at a reported suspicious-death scene Monday…
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Firefighters and law enforcement agencies responded Monday to a grass fire estimated at 75 acres near Mustang Ridge. Evelyn Road…
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Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot by an ICE officer and taken into federal custody while completing a DoorDash delivery in…
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The Austin Transit Partnership is set to vote on keeping its headquarters at 203 Colorado St. and expanding into the neighboring…
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A man was hospitalized in serious but stable condition after being shot by ICE agents Sunday near West Anderson Lane and U.S.…
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A 17-year-old was flown to a hospital in critical condition Sunday after being struck by a vehicle along Farm-to-Market Road…
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A pedestrian was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after being struck by a vehicle Saturday night in southeast Austin.…
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Austin City Council is set to consider contracts totaling up to $60 million to replace the city’s heavily customized permitting…
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Hutto City Council voted Thursday to permanently end the police department’s use of Flock Safety automated license plate…
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Round Rock City Council has adopted an updated trails plan aimed at connecting neighborhoods, schools, parks and businesses as…
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Human remains were found near the Caldwell County area where Texas State student Jason Landry’s abandoned car was discovered…
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A hacking group that removed a Flock license-plate camera says its examination showed the system can create dozens of images…
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The University of Texas at Austin is nearing completion of the Autry C. Stephens Engineering Discovery Building, the final…
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Austin ISD has launched a public dashboard tracking staffing, attendance and other conditions at campuses with unacceptable…
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A planned 10-foot drop in Lake Austin from Oct. 12 through Nov. 30 is prompting warnings from boat operators about lost revenue,…
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Austin police say two people supplied drugs that caused the June death of Austin Community College student Ethan Westgard. Both…
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An F-16 assigned to Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland crashed Thursday in rural northern Michigan after the pilot ejected safely.…
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Christopher Ramon was found unresponsive during a nurse’s round Wednesday morning at the Travis County Jail and was pronounced…
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Jordan Breck and Alysia Rodriguez-Mabry face first-degree murder charges in the June death of 19-year-old Ethan Westgard. Police…