As the White House has continued its support of Israel amid what humanitarian experts around the world have called a genocide in Gaza, advocates have been steadily convincing city officials around the country to adopt resolutions calling for a cease-fire, in an attempt to send a message to the Biden administration.

Maybe Texas Republicans aren’t that good at writing censorship laws. On Wednesday, the most conservative federal appeals court in the country overturned House Bill 900, a law passed this spring that would ban books from public school libraries.

Kathie Tovo, the former City Council Member who served for more than a decade on Council first as an at-large then as a district representative, announced her campaign to be Austin’s next mayor today, Jan. 18.

Looks like Elon Musk is attempting to add some Texas beachfront property to his empire.

It’s been a little more than four months since the Texas legislature passed a law aiming to expand Medicaid access to moms 12 months postpartum and now, with the feds approving the state’s request to do so, the implementation process can begin. Low-income moms should qualify for Medicaid March 1.

Last summer, family members and friends of inmates in Texas prisons shared accounts of the suffering their loved ones endured in cells without air conditioning. Now, some of the same families are describing frigid temperatures, open windows, and a lack of adequate blankets at various prisons during the recent arctic blast.

The coming freeze this weekend may send those who weathered 2021’s Winter Storm Uri and 2023’s Winter Storm Elliot running to the store to stock up on toilet paper for what feels like the inevitable next blackout, but energy experts agree: You shouldn’t be worried. Probably.

With cold weather on the horizon, all Austinites are encouraged to take precautions – the so-called “four Ps”:

National Nurses United grew this week after 96% of nurses voted in 225 new members to the Ascension Seton nurses’ union.