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February 14, 2025

KUT Afternoon Newscast for February 14, 2025: The legal battle between a New York Doctor and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton continues.

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 […]

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February 14, 2025

KUT Morning Newscast for February 14, 2025: AISD says its projected budget deficit has grown to $110 million.

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 […]

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February 13, 2025

KUT Afternoon Newscast for February 13, 2025: Austin led the country in affordable housing builds last year.

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 […]

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February 13, 2025

Austin’s light-rail plans are closer than ever to becoming a reality, but the project would require dozens of businesses to be demolished.

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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February 13, 2025

KUT Morning Newscast for February 13, 2025: Demonstrators gathered on UT campus to protest Trump’s immigration policies.

Central Texas top stories for February 13, 2025. Around a hundred demonstrators gathered on the UT Austin campus Wednesday afternoon to protest reported sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on campus. Say so far, City of Austin programs have not been affected by federal and state orders related to freezing grants and loans, but some […]

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February 12, 2025

KUT Afternoon Newscast for February 12, 2025: A ranking of student success rates finds mixed results for schools in Central Texas.

Central Texas top stories for February 12, 2025. The SIMS Foundation is making a comeback. A lunar lander manufactured in the Austin area is making its way to the moon. Bird flu was found in Black Vultures in New Braunfels.

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February 12, 2025

KUT’s Mose Buchele on Season 3 of The Disconnect: Power, Politics and the Texas Blackout.

It’s been four years since a massive winter storm killed hundreds of people and left millions of Texans without power. KUT’s Mose Buchele talks to KUT’s Morning Edition host Jennifer Stayton about season 3 and the role natural gas played in the blackout.

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February 12, 2025

KUT Morning Newscast for February 12, 2025: KUT’s third season of “The Disconnect” is now available.  

Central Texas top stories for February 12, 2025. SIMS foundation, an Austin nonprofit that provides low to no-cost mental health care to musicians, say they’re restarting services, but musicians still have questions. A lunar lander manufactured by Firefly in the Austin area is making its way to the moon, now the company is expanding operations in town. […]

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