Tesla To Open Texas Factory Critical To Growth Ambitions
SAN FRANCISCO, April 7 (Reuters) - Tesla Inc TSLA.O will on Thursday hold an event to mark the opening of its $1.1 billion factory in Texas, which will...
UT Longhorn Band Refuses to Play ‘The Eyes of Texas’
“The Eyes of Texas” will be played at Saturday’s University of Texas at Austin football game, but not by the Longhorn band.
Band members were...
Austin Is The Fifth Best City For Nightlife, Study Finds
Austin has been ranked the fifth-best city in the world for nightlife in 2024 by Time Out magazine.
Thanks to the weather, quality of bars,...
Republican Bills Targeting Local Transit Projects Die
A set of bills that would have stymied local government road and transit plans are likely dead...
Austin Police Release Footage Showing the Killing of Mike Ramos
The Austin Police Department released video footage Monday of the fatal police shooting of Mike Ramos, an unarmed Black and Latino man who was killed as...
‘We Aren’t Surprised He Would Deny Free Speech To His Opponent’: Lincoln Project Files...
The Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump organization, said on Friday that they would be filing an ethics complaint against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, “for misuse...
Car-Centric Austin Is Building Transit. Will Anyone Ride It?
AUSTIN, Oct 19 (Reuters) - In 2019, Diane Guerra and her husband moved out of their two-bedroom apartment in trendy East Austin to buy...
Goodwill Sells Ancient Roman Relic For $34.99
Laura Young discovered the bust in 2018, unceremoniously stowed beneath a table in an Austin Goodwill store. She knew the price tag on its...
Free Movies! SXSW Makes Deal to Stream 2020 Fest Films
The South by Southwest Film Festival would have drawn thousands to watch movies in Austin, but all the SXSW events were canceled because of...
Austin’s Identity Crisis in the Age of Musk
Once known as a laid-back college town built around the State Capitol, Austin is now in the throes of an identity crisis. Its transformation...
