AUSTIN, Texas - Five candidates are vying for the position of Austin City Mayor. ... Mayor Kirk Watson served his first term as city mayor in 1997 and was reelected with a sweeping majority vote.

AUSTIN, Texas — Austin voters have chosen Kirk Watson as their next mayor, in a tight race decided by a few hundred votes. In November, neither Watson nor State Rep. Celia Israel received more ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Austin Mayor Kirk Watson is running for re-election. Watson officially announced his re-election campaign on Wednesday, April 10.

Besides giving Watson a second term as mayor, voters elected three new Austin City Council members last year who made boosting the city’s housing supply the centerpiece of their campaigns, which ...

Former State Sen. Kirk Watson at a debate on ATX Decides, hosted by Austin PBS at Studio 919 on Dec. 5. Watson narrowly defeated State Rep. Celia Israel in a runoff election Tuesday for Austin mayor.

Austin Mayor Kirk Watson has taken flak for a take-charge style that can leave his council colleagues and the public in the dark. If that irks some people, Watson isn't apologizing.

Austin Mayor Kirk Watson sits down with Grace Reader to talk about capping TxDOT's I-35 expansion and whether the city will receive a federal grant to help. Rep. Lauren Ashley Simmons post-session ...

Texas troopers aired a video which they claim proves their officers did not point a gun at a 10-year-old child, the reason city mayor Kirk Watson cited for ending a partnership with the agency.

Austin officials celebrated the completion of a major milestone in the multibillion-dollar airport expansion, opening a newly ...

Mayor Kirk Watson announced during a June 10 press conference that opioid overdose deaths in the city and Travis County ...

Gov. Greg Abbott confirmed he is deploying the National Guard to Texas cities with planned anti-ICE protests, which have followed those in LA.