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 ...

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.

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, 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 Mayor Kirk Watson as mayor, while in Round Rock, voters approved three out of four propositions for a school district's nearly $1 billion bond. ... 2024 in Austin, Texas.

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 ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Austin city leaders celebrated the 50th anniversary of the classic horror film "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" on Friday, which was filmed in several locations across Austin and ...

Mayor Kirk Watson proclaimed Oct. 11 as Texas Chain Saw Massacre Day, as several actors from the original film were present.