Four developer teams have been shortlisted to remake a multi-block section of Lockhart’s downtown. The EDC’s RFQ has moved to an RFP stage with an Aug. 3 deadline and a hoped-for selection this fall.

Tesla design and engineering chiefs said the next Roadster will be built at Gigafactory Texas, with early production planning and test‑track work under way in Austin.

A 36-year-old man with a prior Texas State arrest was booked in San Antonio on an attempt-to-record charge after a woman reported seeing a phone held over a restroom stall. Police confiscated phones and charging paperwork lists the invasive-visual-recording allegation.

The Home Depot has opened along Leander's 183A Toll frontage road, bringing a full-service garden, rentals and roughly 150 jobs to the growing corridor.

A 19-year-old Somerville resident was arrested in connection with an April shooting at a La Grange trail-ride event that left one man dead.

Gov. Abbott told public colleges to hold undergraduate tuition flat for 2026–27 while the state boosted student aid by $328 million to expand grant coverage.

The Line Austin was flagged for a June foreclosure auction after an alleged $172M loan default, joining sister Line hotels in D.C. and L.A. that lenders already seized.

A 54,000‑acre Hill Country ranch will become Silver Lake State Park after the Moody Foundation donated most of the land and TPWD bought the remainder.

A UnidosUS poll of 500 Texas Latino voters finds roughly one in five who backed Trump in 2024 would switch in a do‑over, driven largely by cost‑of‑living worries.

Overnight storms pushed the Comal into a fast, debris-choked surge and New Braunfels closed recreational access while crews assess safety. Officials will reassess Thursday morning.

A house explosion near U.S. 87 outside Fredericksburg shook homes and sent several people to hospitals as authorities investigate. Emergency crews remain on scene.

A 20-year-old New Braunfels man was killed after his motorcycle left Schuenemann Road and struck a fence on Friday night.

State troopers found 20 people — including four minors — hidden in a truck sleeper on I-35 near Laredo; the driver has been arrested on human‑smuggling and evading charges.