Hot and humid Thursday–Friday with highs near 90°F. A cold front Saturday, April 18, brings a 50% chance of storms and locally heavy rain.

Meenu Batra, a certified Hindi/Punjabi/Urdu court interpreter from South Texas, was detained by ICE at Harlingen airport on March 17; her lawyers filed a habeas petition alleging mistreatment.

Southbound I‑35 near Grand Avenue Parkway was shut down after a pedestrian was struck and killed; investigators closed the main lanes and detoured traffic.

A multi‑vehicle crash on RM 1431 near I‑35 involved a motorcycle and left the rider dead, Round Rock police say. Both directions of the road were closed.

Austin police reposted surveillance stills showing a suspect in an October H‑E‑B robbery and are asking the public for tips.

A NOAA inquiry has sidelined TPWD’s decades‑long gill‑net monitoring, creating a data gap that managers and researchers warn could complicate fisheries decisions. Federal comment deadlines are this week.

Family-owned Bella Loma opened a Spicewood tasting room in February, serving house-distilled blanco and reposado tequilas with more releases planned later this year.

A long‑running fight over a downtown lot turned into a lawsuit when Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra asked a court to halt San Marcos' plan to demolish a building he owns. The filing cites the Texas Constitution and asks for emergency relief.

A heavy police response and live TV coverage marked a Wednesday standoff at Lark San Antonio near Loop 1604 and UTSA. Negotiators and specialty units were on scene.

BrewLAB soft-opened on April 11 and is serving espresso and light bites on weekends in Hutto ahead of a planned May 10 grand opening.

Capland pitched a 34‑acre mixed‑use plan beside Ascension Seton Hays with about 535 apartments and 177,000 sq ft of commercial space.

Austin-Bergstrom will run a federally required full-scale emergency exercise on April 15, bringing extra law enforcement to the terminal. Officials say flights should continue normally.

Nearly 8,000 customers lost power early Wednesday after two major outages hit far‑west San Antonio. One outage was flagged as weather‑related while the other remains under investigation.