Last year, Steven Pedigo, director of the LBJ Urban Lab at UT, spoke about housing affordability at the Texas Tribune ...

An Austin man has filed a federal lawsuit against the city and the officer he says punched him in the head unprovoked on ...

Members agree on funding for EMS but remain divided over other priorities, including homelessness, food access and police ...

Members could vote Thursday on a revised, scaled-back budget after voters rejected a property tax hike known as Proposition Q ...

Mayor Kirk Watson is calling for an overhaul of Austin City Council's expense policies following months of American-Statesman reporting that has revealed questionable spending by city leaders — and ...

Kirk Watson will begin his fourth term as Austin's mayor, and will serve four more years beginning in January.

Austin City Council is set to delay a planned Thursday vote on the new, four-year labor agreement with the Austin ...

City Council Member Greg Casar will not run for the Texas Senate seat opened up by Kirk Watson’s retirement. In a video message shared Monday morning, Casar said he would focus his energy on local ...

The budget Austin city council adopted earlier this year will no longer be what the city operates from. The dais will need to come back to the table to essentially redo the later stages of the Fiscal ...