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Project Summary: This story is part of KXAN’s “Preventing Disaster” investigation, which initially published on May 15, 2024. The proj...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) - A Republican-backed bill to require public schools to place the Ten Commandments in every classroom won preliminary appro...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) -- The Texas House voted 85-49 Friday to send Senate Bill 38 to a third reading after adding four amendments on the House f...

AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) — Texas public schools are one step closer to receiving new state money after the Senate on Friday unanimously approv...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) -- The Texas House of Representatives approved a bill that will fully ban any consumable hemp products that contain THC, th...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Travis County Sheriff’s Office internal affairs is investigating how an inmate slipped beneath an interior fence on May 15 a...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — In a city of Austin meeting Thursday, it was announced that people 65 or older and persons with disabilities would receive a...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Severe storms dumped hail up to golf ball and baseball size across parts of Central Texas Thursday evening.Several Sever...

BURNET, Texas (KXAN) — The graduation ceremony at Burnet High School Thursday evening has been moved indoors due to the risk of severe weath...

LEANDER, Texas (KXAN) — A measles case has been confirmed in a school-age child from Leander, marking the first case in Williamson County th...

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Austin City Council voted Thursday to move forward with committing $104 million to the Texas Department of Transportation (...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas legislators passed their first AI-related bill of the session to Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday, one with a specific foc...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) -- As state lawmakers decide the future of the Texas Lottery Commission (TLC), a Texas woman who won an $83.5 million Lotto...

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Following the launch of KXAN’s “Undocumented” investigative project, our team saw high interest in and engagement surroundi...

LEANDER, Texas (KXAN)-- An arrest was made after a Rouse High School student-teacher, Darian Rogers, was accused of having an improper relat...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) -- The Texas House of Representatives voted to preliminarily approve a bill that will fully ban any consumable hemp product...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Monday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill intended to standardized the regulation of the state's food service indu...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The results are in for the Austin Police Department's (APD) Automated License Plate Reader program (ALPR) after the city rel...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A man in Hays County was sentenced to serve nearly three centuries in prison Monday after being convicted on seven charges r...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced there would be an investigation into U.S. Masters Swimming.Accord...

Editor's Note: The video above is from a May 4 newscast.AUSTIN (Nexstar) — On Tuesday, the Texas House was set to discuss an amended ver...

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- A Kyle resident tested positive for measles, and Hays County officials are expected to provide more details in a news confe...

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Austin city council will decide Thursday whether it wants to commit funding to design and build roadway elements for park d...

(The Texas Tribune) — State Rep. Vikki Goodwin, D-Austin, has filed paperwork to run for lieutenant governor in next year’s midterm election...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas has a new law aimed at rooting out "bad actors" from educational settings, with another in the works.Texas Gov. Gr...