Under a proposal approved Thursday, City Council members may have the ability next year to fund projects in their districts without following the usual planning and budgeting processes. The resolution ...

At Thursday’s City Council meeting, after hearing complaints from two attorneys that a proposed ordinance would violate state law and the city charter, Mayor Kirk Watson announced that the item would ...

The city is projected to need $35 million annually over a 10-year period to effectively end homelessness via a plan that ...

As its end-of-year deadline approaches, Austin Energy is busy crunching numbers, hoping to finally nail down a ...

The city has identified improvements to several east-west streets through downtown as priority projects in a new plan to address mobility in the area. Last month, the Downtown Commission got the first ...

Austin Mayor Kirk Watson is ahead in the city’s mayoral race with just over 50% of the vote, according to unofficial voting ...

Austin Independent School District Proposition A, a tax rate election, passed with 58 percent of the vote on Nov. 5, ...

Although the race was extremely close, at the end of Tuesday night Marc Duchen could claim victory in the District 10 City Council contest over his only opponent, Ashika Ganguly. Duchen finished with ...

By the time early votes rolled in on election night, Travis County’s sweeping investment in child care services had already ...

Austin’s District 6 seat for City Council appeared to have been won by challenger Krista Laine, based on unofficial results from Travis and Williamson counties posted early Wednesday morning. Laine ...

Two of the least-competitive City Council races played out exactly as most people anticipated they would, with Council ...

This month, City Council will vote on proposed updates to Austin’s Water Forward Plan and to the related Water Conservation and Drought Contingency plans. During a briefing on Oct. 22, Austin Water ...