February 18, 2025
Central Texas top stories for February 18, 2025. The National Weather Service expects temperatures in Austin to go below freezing tonight. Texas lawmakers got an update today on an expansion to the state’s mental health hospitals. Liberty Hill ISD could adopt a four-day school week next year.
February 18, 2025
The beating heart of Elon Musk’s business empire is growing in Texas
Fifteen hundred miles from Washington, DC, Elon Musk has been quietly growing his business empire outside of Austin. His Texas footprint could rapidly grow this year, as he moves X’s HQ and expands his SpaceX Starlink facility’s size in rural Central Texas.
February 18, 2025
Central Texas top stories for February 18, 2025. The National Weather Service has issued a Cold Weather Advisory for Central Texas starting late tonight until tomorrow at noon. The City of Austin will open its cold weather shelters for the next couple of nights. Austin area school districts are struggling with budget deficit, one local district […]
February 17, 2025
entral Texas top stories for February 17, 2025. As everyday expenses like groceries continue to rise, Hays County Food Bank is trying to help those in need. A construction is underway for an emergency food pantry in Bastrop. Round Rock city leaders are calling for drought-friendly landscaping in new developments. UT’s women’s basketball team beat […]
February 14, 2025
Central Texas top stories for February 14, 2025. A Texas judge is ordering a New York doctor to stop prescribing abortion pills to people in Texas. Austin ISD is instituting a hiring freeze on March 1st to try to reduce its growing budget shortfall. A new report from the ERCOT suggests there’s more work ahead […]
February 14, 2025
Central Texas top stories for February 14, 2025. The Austin Independent School District says its projected budget deficit has grown by nearly 20-million-dollars. A Texas judge ruled a New York doctor has to stop providing abortion care to people in Texas via telemedicine. Now it is illegal to park in a bike lane in Austin. Ascension […]
February 13, 2025
Central Texas top stories for February 13, 2025. There’s more affordable housing in Austin than there used to be. How the city of Austin decides to open cold weather shelters. A new childcare facility run by the YMCA is opening in Southeast Austin next month. The Texas Women’s basketball team looks to extend their eight-game […]
February 13, 2025
KUT’s Nathan Bernier takes us on a tour around Austin to learn about some of the properties that could be bulldozed to make space for the city’s high-frequency urban rail.
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