With the November general election looming in what will be referendum on President Donald Trump’s mid-term popularity, the Travis County Republican and Democratic parties are gearing up to do their ...

With dangerously low temperatures and freezing rain blanketing large parts of the United States this week, organizers from No Kings went online Monday evening for a discussion about Immigration ...

The 2026 Austin City Council elections won’t take place for 283 days but eight challengers have already appointed campaign ...

Did the City of Austin “defund” the police? Did it cut its police budget by 5 percent or by one-third? What’s the truth behind these conflicting claims? Those are hot-button issues that play into the ...

Kirk Watson, the highest-profile Democrat running to be Austin’s next mayor, has long ago been there, done that, and yet he wants another crack at leading city government. Which raises the question: ...

The current Austin City Council has made it a priority to boost funding for homeless services, but some mayoral and council candidates think the city hasn’t done enough, while others see the current ...

A decade ago, then State Senator Kirk Watson, who’s now running for mayor of Austin, dreamed of a creating a new medical school in Austin. Critics say he achieved that goal by knowingly disregarding ...

Allan McMurtry first got involved in 1977, when the since-relocated Allendale Baptist Church wanted to expand. They began buying up houses around their property and tearing them down, while also ...

A Travis County court issued a ruling to halt the use of future property taxes to subsidize luxury development of 118 acres of land within the South Center Waterfront District. The plan approved by ...

Outgoing District 9 Council Member Kathie Tovo, who fought the CodeNEXT rewrite of Austin’s Land Development Code, could soon be replaced by a candidate with different views on development. Tovo was ...

Robert Earl Reynolds, 53, yesterday appointed his brother as campaign treasurer and filed an application to be on the November 5 th ballot. He declared for the District 2 council seat occupied by ...

After losing in two hard runs for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, attorney Michael John Weills Siegel (D-Austin) has lowered his political sights in hopes of winnning a seat on the Austin ...