Katy McAfee

The dry and windy conditions will be ripe for embers from a cigarette, a chain on the back of a truck or sparks from machinery to ignite on dry vegetation and be carried for over a mile.

Austin Energy officials said broken tree limbs and damaged electrical equipment can cause local outages.

Un bombero prende fuego a varias parcelas durante una quema prescrita en el parque Pace Bend de Spicewood la semana pasada.

Integral Care, which fields 911 mental health calls, will hire 23 more mental health specialists to respond to those in crisis 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

When someone calls 911 in Austin, they are given four options: police, fire, EMS or mental health services. Since the addition of the mental health option in 2021, the demand for it has only gone up.

The APD Bomb Squad was called in around 8 a.m. Monday after someone spotted a suspicious device at the North Austin dealership located at 12845 N. Highway 183.

Just like the original site, the new gallery will be free and open to the public. The building and its accompanying concrete structures spell “HOPE” from a birds-eye view, an acronym for Helping Other People Everywhere.

Nonprofits help refugees pay for rent and groceries, land jobs, sign up for medical benefits and enroll in school. The end of federal funding could mean these services disappear.

The Trump Administration's latest tariffs have not gone into effect yet, but Toy Joy COO Robby Pettinato said many vendors have already started “exorbitantly” raising prices, forcing the store to pass that onto customers.

Last Saturday, it looked like Green Mesquite BBQ’s oldest and last standing location on Barton Springs Road would close. But longtime staff pooled in thousands of dollars in personal savings to keep it open.