Bastrop ISD trustees want a 1.3-cent tax hike to plug a budget shortfall and boost teacher pay. Seniors would be exempt.

Max Luff vanished from his San Marcos home wearing black Carhartt overalls and a patch-covered vest. Detectives want tips, not judgment.

Police say the same man hit a Cesar Chavez Street shop twice in ten days, escalating from theft to assault.

Crews are pouring concrete for a car-crash extrication pad and paving a driving track once cut from Round Rock's original 2013 plan.

Owner Crystal Claunch wants a South First spot near Summer Moon Coffee for a late-fall debut, with expansion riding on how it performs.

A juvenile and a man in his 20s were hospitalized after an early Thursday shooting near Wurzbach Parkway, with police saying neither had a weapon.

An Army CID probe is underway after a Fort Cavazos Apache went down off Dove Hollow Lane, igniting a wildfire and forcing evacuations.

Austin households now out-earn what's needed for a starter home by over $16,000 a year, even as mortgage rates near 6.7% keep monthly costs high.

Rescued as a frozen hatchling on a Welsh beach in 2023, Kemp's ridley turtle Rhossi is days from returning to the Gulf.

Nearly 594,000 people across 21 counties struggle to get enough food, and 1 in 4 local kids go to bed hungry.

Hood County has waited six months for Ken Paxton's answer on blocking data centers — while his Senate campaign banked hundreds of thousands from the industry.

A man died Sunday night in a single-motorcycle crash on a Southeast Austin road already flagged as one of the city's most dangerous.

Oracle joins Meta and OpenAI in backing Abbott's audit rules as Texas pauses new grid hookups statewide.