National campaign to unlock housing supply and improve affordability gains bipartisan support from mayors across the country AUSTIN, Texas, June 30, 2025 ...

Then-interim City Manager Jesús Garza, at left with Mayor Kirk Watson, hired two former City Hall staffers after the 2023 winter storm without council approval, breaking city rules. The city of Austin ...

The deal aimed, as Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said, to fix the "very broken" relationship between the two offices. "One reason we pursued this agreement with the DA was to help us get unstuck," he said ...

Democrats Colin Allred, Beto O'Rourke, Joaquin Castro and James Talarico all want to run for the Senate seat held by ...

Gromer Jeffers, political writer for the Dallas Morning News, spoke with KVUE about a meeting between some of the best-known Democrats in the state.

After Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed 1,155 bills into law following the legislative session, the city of Austin is working ...

Backed by tech money, entrepreneur MacKenzie Price is growing a network of private K–12 schools that promises to replace all classroom teachers with an “AI tutor” that students learn from while glued ...

Austin, Texas, had a mayoral election that bore a superficial resemblance to New York City’s this week. The final runoff featured two Democrats, one an establishment candidate and former mayor, the ...

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

The Texas attorney general has accused WEX Bank of "debanking" a firearm supplier, but the Maine-based bank said it does not ...