Central Texas top stories for February 19, 2025. An Extreme Cold Warning is in effect until noon tomorrow. Why the sudden drop in temperature impacted your car’s tire pressure. The Austin American-Statesman is being sold to Hearst. More than 200 acres of environmentally sensitive land in Southwest Travis County and North Hays County is now permanently safeguarded from development. UT Austin names Jim Davis as interim-president.
Edwards Aquifer
KUT Morning Newscast for February 19, 2025: The Austin area is under Extreme Cold Warning today.
Central Texas top stories for February 19, 2025. The Austin area is under an Extreme Cold Warning until tomorrow at noon with dangerously cold wind chills. More than 200 acres of environmentally sensitive land near Southwestern Travis County are being permanently protected by the city of Austin. Liberty Hill ISD is moving to a four-day school week.
KUT Morning Newscast for November 29, 2023
Central Texas top stories for November 29, 2023. Austin winter readiness. 1836 Project. Georgetown water demand. Edwards Aquifer species not endangered. Prescribed burn at Southeast Metropolitan Park.
Listen to This Podcast or We’ll Poison Barton Springs
(Episode 3) In the 1990s, Austin voters passed landmark protections for parts of southwest Austin that sit on top of the aquifer that feeds Barton Springs. That set off a chain of events that had a profound effect on how the city would grow in the coming decades.
KUT Morning Newscast for October 21, 2022
Central Texas top stories for October 21, 2022. F1 transportation woes. Barton Springs aquifer drought. Williamson County emergency preparedness. Austin FC.
Texas Standard: January 3, 2019
The calendars have switched over to 2019 and that means some new Texas laws are or will soon go into effect. We’ll tell you what you need to know. Also, Mexico’s new president is making the entire border with the U.S. into a special zone to encourage would-be migrants to stay put. We’ll ask one expert whether the plan will work. Plus, jobs these days often involve sitting at a desk and getting food is as easy as pushing a button… How our hunter-gatherer bodies aren’t adapting. And have you ever seen an albino cockroach? It may not be what you think. All that and more today on the Texas Standard: