Austin | KXAN TV
KXAN TV RSS Feed; Site: KXAN TV; Category: Austin
McCallum High School was placed on lockdown Wednesday and nearby Ridgetop Elementary was placed under “shelter in place” amid reports that someone may have fired a shot.
Police stopped 10 drivers for
DWI on Fat Tuesday, two of which were given mandatory blood draws. Friday and Saturday night Austin police arrested more than 30 people for
DWI.
This could be a big day for the plan to raise electric rates in Austin.
Manor High School’s One Life, One Goal program has been spreading a tobacco prevention message to the community since 2010.
The Lower Colorado River Authority’s board on Wednesday voted 10-5 to hold back water to the rice farmers downstream because of the prolonged drought.
“America’s Got Talent” is set for live videotaping at the Long Center for the Performing Arts on March 17 and 18. Those older than age 14 are invited to attend, free of charge.
A benefit set up for Kylie Doniak at
Chili’s is happening at all Austin locations and some in surrounding cities on Wednesday.
If commuters can’t make it to Ash Wednesday services, St. David’s Episcopal will take ashes to them.
Deployed airmen took the chance to help children learn about how the world as we know it was discovered.
Austin police have released a list of the most dangerous intersections in the city for pedestrians.
Public outrage from residents in Dripping Springs is causing The Texas Department of Transportation to give Ranch Road 12 another makeover.
Officers with the Austin Police Department arrived by the bus load early Tuesday evening to keep an eye on the large Mardi Gras crowd on Sixth Street, but mounted patrol officers are arguably offering the most protection.
An Austin man typically shines the spotlight on crooked cops and corruption in the criminal justice system, but Scott Henson’s version of his own encounter with Austin police is getting a lot of attention.
The man who chased after and caught the driver charged with running down UT soccer player Kylie Doniak was honored Tuesday by a crime victims’ rights group.
The public is invited to attend and give input on Sunday, March 24, from 2
p.m. to 5
p.m.
A trio of Broadway performers met with the performing arts students at the Austin School for the Performing and Visual Arts on Tuesday.
“Now before the Supreme Court, the University of Texas will vigorously seek a decision affirming the Fifth Circuit’s decision and reaffirming the educational benefits of diversity and our narrowly tailored holistic admissions policy,” according to UT President William Powers.
Dozens of doctors, administrators and community leaders turned out to Tuesday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony of the CommUnity Care health center in North Austin.
The Texas Department of Transportation and the city are looking to make improvements to Ranch to Market 1431.
At a work session Monday night, Austin Independent School District board members discussed whether to defer the 15-percent grading rule for the new
STAAR, or State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness Exams until the 2012-2013 school year.
Mirroring a march and rally in Washington, D.C., supporters of Texas Congressman Ron Paul gathered Monday at the State Capitol. It was a small group with big hopes – a handful of veterans like Army SPC Joshua Theroux.
Neighbors on Teakwood Drive said calls to the city did little to stop a water leak that sent a stream of wasted water down the entire block and into a storm drain.
Construction workers Monday discovered a body of a man from Lady Bird Lake near Interstate 35. The age and other identifying information were not immediately known.
Austin police on Monday charged a 59-year-old woman with intoxication manslaughter in the fatal auto-pedestrian crash that occurred on Guadalupe Sunday night.
Hundreds of papers littered Dessau Road for blocks in North Austin on Monday morning after a waste truck’s netting came loose.
Austin police write thousands of tickets every year, but some places throughout the city get many more people in trouble than others.
A car struck and killed a man in his late 20s on northbound MoPac on Sunday evening
An 87-year-old man is the first patient in Central Texas to undergo a revolutionary new heart procedure.
The driver of a silver Lexus crossed two lanes of traffic and slammed into a bus stop near
Wheatsville Co-Op in Central Austin, leaving a man in his early 60s dead and a woman in critical condition.
Thousands ran the annual Austin Marathon on Sunday morning, many of them cancer survivors.
