Austin budget gets $4.7 million boost as cuts loom
Matthew Becker, an outreach assessor at Sunrise Homeless Navigation Center, right, gives supplies to Barbara Leggett, an Austin…
Austin nonprofit funding cuts: Full list of proposed budget reductions
Central Texas Food Bank driver TreMayne Lewis efficiently unloads the food inventory on Tuesday, March 3, 2026. Nicole…
Texas Public Policy Foundation sues Austin over tree ordinance
Homes on Las Ventanas Drive in the Northwest Hills neighborhood on Thursday April 28, 2022. Jay Janner /…
Austin earns Aaa credit rating from Moody’s, completes perfect ratings
Austin has become the only major Texas city to hold the highest possible credit rating from all three…
Austin’s watchdog has fielded hundreds of misconduct complaints
The Austin City Auditor’s Office has completed eight investigations so far this fiscal year, substantiating allegations in half…
Austin mayor calls nonprofit audit ‘troubling’ as providers push back
Austin City Hall on Monday, May 18, 2026. Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman Mayor Kirk Watson and several Austin City…
Austin city audit finds nonprofit contract performance shortfalls
The new logo for the City of Austin is displayed at City Hall on Monday, Sept. 8, 2025.…
Austin budget debate centers on 3.5% property tax hike, cuts
Austin City Manager T.C. Broadnax, left, and Mayor Kirk Watson discuss a new city budget at City Hall…
Austin budget proposal draws backlash over cuts, police and taxes
The “stinger,” an architectural feature of Austin City Hall, extends over West Second Street on Monday, May 18,…
Austin budget proposal raises property taxes, utility rates
Austin City Manager T.C. Broadnax during an interview in his City Hall office, July 2, 2025. Sara Diggins/Austin…
ICE is threatening to deport witnesses of its latest shooting in Houston
Advocates are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security release bodycam footage of the fatal shooting of Lorenzo…
Austin social services budget cuts target transportation, legal aid
Donald Earl, who said he has been homeless for eight years, stands with his belongings outside a voting…