Carole Keeton Strayhorn, who served as Austin Mayor and in statewide office, dies
Strayhorn served as Austin's mayor from 1977 to 1983, before serving as a railroad commissioner in the 1990s and as Texas ...
Carole Keeton Strayhorn, first woman to serve as Texas comptroller and former Austin mayor, dies
Strayhorn served as Austin's mayor from 1977 to 1983, before serving as a railroad commissioner in the 1990s and as Texas comptroller from 1999 until 2007.
How a $1 billion project will help save Austin's water supply
Austin Water will be giving an over $1 billion upgrade to its Walnut Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant set to provide an extra 25 million gallons of water a day ...
30 years after music icon Selena's murder, Yolanda Saldívar was denied parole
Latino music legend Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was killed by her fan club's president, Yolanda Saldívar in a motel room in Corpus Christi.
30 years after music icon Selena's murder, Yolanda Saldívar is up for parole. Here's what to know
Thirty years ago, music legend Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was killed by her fan club's president, Yolanda Saldívar. For the ...
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Yiddish in Texas: An unexpected language is still riding the bronco
Read the original Yiddish article. We’ve all heard the stereotypes about cowboys. But few people know that Texas has always ...
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'Push the boundaries': Literacy advocate Zell Miller III is Austin's first poet laureate
For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did not exist. The first to fill that position, administered by the Austin ...
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Inside South by Southwest, where tech bros and hippies battle for the soul of Austin
Austin, Texas is caught between two identities: the offbeat home of live music and the new rival to Silicon Valley. How did that tension play out South by Southwest, the yearly festival which ...
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High tech: How federal government helped birth Austin industry along with other essentials
Austin's owes the origins of its vaunted high-tech industry to the federal government. At the close of World War II, the feds closed a bustling plant north of Austin that had processed magnesium ...