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Central Texas top stories for January 16, 2025. DPS is trying to improve the process for Texans to get a driver’s license. The City of Austin is opening 6th Street to vehicle traffic, after decades of weekend closures. The Austin Transit Partnership is holding its first public meeting to answer questions about the plans for a new light-rail system.
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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February 13, 2025
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
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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