Brianna Hollis

“Pretty much any time there’s a death in Austin outside, the homicide unit will respond to that,” Sgt. Nathan Sexton with the Austin Police Department’s (APD) homicide unit …

Law enforcement, prosecutors and elected officials keep pointing to the creation of a diversion center as a solution to address crime related to mental health and homelessness.

Fifty bars in have joined a new city pilot program aimed at keeping safe while going out in Austin’s entertainment districts.

Currently, arrestees in Travis County don’t always have an attorney with them at their first court appearance.

The private security company hired by a group of downtown businesses to patrol a portion of Sixth Street said guards helped administer Narcan this week amid a spike of overdoses.

Detectives with the Austin Police Department seized crack cocaine that tested positive for fentanyl, and the agency now believes the spike in overdoses downtown are a result of people taking fentan…

Increased criminal penalties involving individuals who distribute deadly doses of fentanyl have been in place for almost one year now.

Police with the University of Texas at Austin arrested Michael David Maule, 26, for carrying a gun on UT’s campus during a protest on April 29, according to an arrest affidavit.

DRIPPING SPRINGS, Texas (KXAN) — Lisa Walling was driving home Thursday, trying to beat the storm, when “all of a sudden it was like softballs coming through the sky and windshields sha…

DRIPPING SPRINGS, Texas (KXAN) — Lisa Walling was driving home Thursday, trying to beat the storm, when “all of a sudden it was like softballs coming through the sky and windshields shattering,” she said.