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 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 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 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 ...

"Homeownership was the American dream, but it's become an impossible dream for too many people – especially young people, who want the same opportunities to make a life previous generations had," said ...

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

Austin Mayor Kirk Watson warns that demonstrators in Austin must not play into  the"fear and chaos" he said is being spread ...

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 ...

The anti-Trump protests in Austin remained peaceful, despite a "credible threat" that forced a brief evacuation of the Texas ...

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