Under state law, Austin is only allowed to raise its tax rate by 3.5 percent without asking voters for permission. That law ...

With a major expansion on the horizon for Austin’s Walnut Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, Mayor Kirk Watson is working with city staff to ensure the $1 billion project goes off without a hitch. The ...

For the second time in less than a year, community member Ted Eubanks faced opposition to his nomination to the city’s Parks ...

Austin City Council members celebrated the resounding defeat of House Bill 274 on Wednesday, a bill that would have created ...

The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center has launched its annual spring native plant sale, which stretches from March 28-April 27, Fridays-Sundays from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. (The first weekend of the sale is ...

Statesman editor and the author of the book Barton Creek, will be leading a guided hike to the upper waterfalls of the Lost ...

Carole Keeton, Austin’s first woman mayor, died Wednesday at the age of 85. She was born in Austin to Page and Madge Keeton and devoted herself to the city throughout her life. Her father was a ...

While Austin Water has worked to limit the amount of water lost through breaks in its water lines, over time the amount of water lost through such leaks has steadily increased, according to an audit ...

Standing at a pulpit on a Sunday morning in March, the Rev. Daryl Horton of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in East Austin prayed for a swift approval of building permits. An ask that, as anyone familiar with ...

The former chief information officer for Austin Water misused the city’s resources in an effort to find out the identity of ...

The Bond Election Advisory Task Force got its first look Monday at how the Transportation and Public Works Department is ...

Two years ago, after Austin’s lush urban tree canopy froze and downed power lines, leaving hundreds of thousands without ...