Jon Fortune will be Austin's deputy city manager and Genesis D. Gavino will be the special assistant to the city manager.

A small Texas town prudently says no to expanding state’s abortion ban It was the latest effort by an anti-abortion pastor to expand restrictions on reproductive rights Last Thursday, the city council ...

Austin City Council votes to reduce single-family home minimum lot size to combat housing affordability crisis.

An attendee listens and takes ... Austin City Council meeting on Thursday. People testified for and against zoning reforms meant to address the city's housing affordability crisis. Council members ...

Phase 1, which passed in December in a 9-2 vote, allowed for up to three units on many lots. Phase 2, approved Friday, will reduce the minimum lot size needed to build one housing unit in Austin from ...

allow for a greater variety of housing types across the city and ensure that people who work in Austin can live here." Daily news about your community is free, and your support is invaluable. Give $10 ...

The big picture In Texas ... government code. New legislation in 2019 updated state law to specify how members of the public must be offered the chance to speak during meetings. Within Austin ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Monday marked the start of T.C. Broadnax's tenure as Austin city manager. Even though Broadnax was in closed-door meetings all day, he shared a list of priorities and key issues ...

Editor's note: This story was updated to include a quote from City ... of the ordinance, the AG’s office would have determined that the ordinance would have directly conflicted with state ...

It also needs to demonstrate the state suffered $54 million in uninsured damage to government ... for you at The Texas Tribune Festival, happening Sept. 5–7 in downtown Austin.

and the city of Marysville in regards to a 2021 lawsuit filed by the city over the state agency’s plan to improve and widen Highway 70 in and around Binney Junction. Dubbed the Highway 70 Binney ...

There is already growing momentum in the Texas legislature for the State to strip the City of Austin of its autonomy and take over city governance.” Meanwhile, Texas Rep. Dustin Burrows ...