The City of Austin along with Wildlife Austin want you to compete in the third annual Neighborhood Habitat Challenge.

With an array of TV cameras inside City Hall this morning, the proposed Arizona travel ban and state divestment looked poised to collect all the attention this City Council meeting. But aside from that obvious lightning rod, many other issues clouded the council agenda this morning.

The Totescast has a full rundown of the controversial Keypoint report investigating the police shooting death of Nathaniel Sanders II last year. Heavily redacted and hid from public view, its contents were a mystery – until the Chronicle was granted access to it by an anonymous source.

On Tuesday Republican Speaker Joe Straus told the House Appropriations Committee that he is looking for "a balanced, no-new-taxes state budget." However, committee member Rep. Dawnna Dukes, D-Austin, warned that when it comes to filling an $18 billion budget hole, "It needs to be a balanced approach. We can't take one thing off the table."

Austin-American Statesman editorial writer Ken Herman attempted to convince people to take part in democracy. Instead he turned in a column that Education Austin President Louis Malfaro has called "wildly offensive" for its racially-charged rhetoric.

You catch some interesting stuff at City Hall, but a day-glo mountain of plastic bags has to top the list. Yesterday, a coalition called for the city to ban the bags outright.

After 12 years of waiting, Washington, D.C. officials have approved a medi-pot measure overwhelmingly approved by voters in 1998.

Back in 2008 we reported on a botched drug raid at the home of a Maryland mayor that ended with the killing of his dogs. Now there's news of another bad raid, this time in Missouri, that ended with cops shooting two dogs in front of a frightened child.

After narrowing candidates down from about a dozen to a secret six, Capital Metro’s board of directors announced the two finalists for its CEO/president position this morning: Linda S. Watson of Orlando, Fla. and Deborah Wathen Finn of New York.