The boy, Chase Mims, is two weeks shy of his 12th birthday on the day it arrives. Inside the small, aging house in Northeast Austin, he sits next to a much older guest, a man with a cigarette-worn voice and blue-tinted glasses.

San Antonio billionaire Red McCombs took center stage last week at a news conference announcing that he would become a key financial backer of the proposed Formula One auto race coming to the Austin area.

How a woman experiences menopause in the U.S. might have a lot to do with her race or ethnicity, according to a recently published University of Texas study.

The insulting part of making Texas state employees take out their own trash? The new one-gallon trash boxes called "mini-bins" come with a set of instructions in the form of "frequently asked questions." That's what it says on this printed sheet about the state's new MiniMax program - "frequently asked questions" about taking out trash.

While some high school students are out riding waves on Lake Travis, others are measuring sound waves with tuning forks and beakers in a new high school physics summer school course.

For the second consecutive year, more than two of three schools statewide earned top academic honors exemplary and recognized ratings Texas Education Agency officials announced Friday.

While maintaining his position, Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell said Friday that he regrets hurting some in the community with his decision to reject a controversial $750,000 settlement with the family of a man fatally shot by a police officer.

A morning crash that triggered a backlog of traffic for South Austin commuters Friday drew plenty of heroes to the scene after a man lost control of his pickup, according to witness reports.

If you've been to a Travis County farmers market in recent weeks, you might have seen them: people in their 20s in bright orange T-shirts printed with purple dialogue boxes that say, "Join In a Healthy Conversation." They are trying to take the community's pulse on behalf of Central Health, formerly the Travis County Healthcare District.

A woman accused of smearing feces on a catheter leading into her daughter's bloodstream was taken into custody Friday after she was found this month with a child, a violation of her pretrial release, a judge ruled .

Sunlight is free. But it's not cheap or easy to wring abundant amounts of power from it. Enter some tiny crystals known as quantum dots and a chemistry professor at the University of Texas named Xiaoyang Zhu , or, as his students call him, XYZ.

The troops, fresh from the war zone, stood at attention in the hulking Austin Army Aviation hangar at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on Friday morning.

AUSTIN Detroit fugitive nabbed in Austin A fugitive accused of abduction and sexual assault in Detroit was arrested Friday afternoon at an eastern Travis County home, according to an official with the U.S.

The Austin City Council told employers Thursday that they must allow construction workers to take rest breaks.

At its meeting Thursday, the City Council: Agreed to buy a Budget Rent A Car service center at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport for $312,500 to use as a staging area for taxis, limos and other vehicles, and to convert a building there into a climate-controlled waiting area for cab drivers.

The Save Our Springs Alliance has sued to stop work on a $500 million water treatment plant that would draw from Lake Travis, hoping partly to buy time to change Austin's political picture.

AUSTIN 25 charged in no-refusal push Austin Police Department officials announced that during the Fourth of July no-refusal initiative, which began at 9 p.m.

The state Legislature could reduce spending on financial aid for college students by as much as $108 million in the next two-year budget, based on an appropriations request approved Thursday by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

After a day of drama and suspense, Austin City Council members Thursday night narrowly rejected a $750,000 settlement with the family of a man fatally shot by a police officer last year.

As he sits in the Bell County Jail, accused of the Nov. 5 Fort Hood shooting that left 13 dead, Maj.