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Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) represents a blue district based in Austin and has served in Congress since 1995.

Scott Sims, of Austin, Texas, was found semi-conscious on the River Trail, in the Arizona national park

The proposal comes a year after a new state law ended mandatory water breaks in Austin and Dallas. Last year was the hottest on record in Texas.

A Texas Tribune editor recalls working on the 2006 independent gubernatorial campaign of Kinky Friedman.

Friday A/V Club: A caustic cowboy among the cosmic cowboys

The ruling comes amid a nationwide surge in homelessness as high rents put pressure on low-income households and pandemic-era protections expire.

Public education advocates opposed the new charters, which would launch in Arlington, Austin, Big Spring and Manor.

Officer Chris Taylor was tried for murder last year, but jurors couldn’t reach a verdict. A grand jury this week declined to indict him on any criminal charges.

Austin, Texas' South By Southwest music, film and tech festival drops military sponsorship for 2025 following protests

“These pandemic boomtowns, they just got way too expensive over the last two or three years,” chief executive of Reventure Consulting and Reventure App said.

Last month, I wrote a post titled "Austin Judges Shop For Cases With "Mutual Consent." I discussed at some length Judge David Ezra of the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, who hears cases in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas by "mutual consent."…