{"id":335353,"date":"2026-06-13T22:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T22:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/335353\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T22:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T22:02:12","slug":"suburbs-near-austin-lead-the-state-in-safety-and-more-popular-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/335353\/","title":{"rendered":"Suburbs near Austin lead the state in safety and more popular stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CultureMap<\/a>Updated Sat, June 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM UTC\"Georgetown<\/p>\n

Georgetown is the No. 1 safest midsize city in the state. | Getty Images<\/p>\n

Editor’s note: The top Austin news of the week draws attention to two northern suburbs and immigrant businesses around Austin proper. Plus, two well-loved businesses are new neighbors on Rainey Street. Read on for our most popular stories, then find the best weekend happenings right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1. Austin suburb secures No. 1 ranking as safest midsize city in Texas<\/a>. Georgetown and Round Rock are leading the nation, balancing the trifecta of affordability, opportunity, and safety, a new SmartAsset report says.<\/p>\n

2. Austin City Hall storefront trades souvenirs for Japanese collectibles<\/a>. The retail storefront at Austin City Hall, formerly home to Austin Rocks, now houses Akiba Texas, a new concept from the Toy Joy team and inspired by Tokyo’s famed Akihabara district.<\/p>\n

3. Popular coffee and taco businesses move in with Rainey Street cocktail bar<\/a>. It has expanded into the space next door, where local businesses Fleet Coffee Roasters and La Santa Barbacha have moved in.<\/p>\n

4. Screwworm sightings move beyond Texas as leaders work on solution<\/a>. More cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping a resurgent pest that could devastate the nation’s cattle industry.<\/p>\n

5. Austin food blogger debuts PBS show on city’s immigrant-owned eateries<\/a>. In David Douglass’ new online-only PBS show, David Eats Everywhere, he’s visiting immigrant restaurant owners around town, tracing where Austin’s food scene came from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Sat, June 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM UTC Georgetown is the No. 1 safest midsize city in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[98706,132,1823,134,133,98705,113100],"class_list":["post-335353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-akiba-texas","tag-austin","tag-austin-city-hall","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-rocks","tag-midsize-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}